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| *Probate records often pre-date other birth and death records. | | *Probate records often pre-date other birth and death records. |
| *Wills are '''found in the town or county''' where the person lived when the will was made or where they died. | | *Wills are '''found in the town or county''' where the person lived when the will was made or where they died. |
| Relatively few probate records have been microfilmed, so they may need to be used in local and regional German archives. They are often not indexed and require relatively good reading skills.
| | *Depending on the country, probate records can be found online as digital images. For the United States, an experimental index of many county probate records is available to search. |
| | :*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/textprototype/ United States Wills and Deeds Experimental Search] at FamilySearch |
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| ==What can you find in probate records?== | | ==What can you find in probate records?== |