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*[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8995 Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982]($), index and images, incomplete. | *[http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=8995 Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982]($), index and images, incomplete. | ||
*'''1781-1930''' {{RecordSearch|2036959|Mississippi, Probate Records, 1781-1930}} at FamilySearch - [[Mississippi Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; images | *'''1781-1930''' {{RecordSearch|2036959|Mississippi, Probate Records, 1781-1930}} at FamilySearch - [[Mississippi Probate Records - FamilySearch Historical Records|How to Use this Collection]]; images | ||
*[https://www.familysearch.org/search/full-text Full-Text Search - Probate Records] at FamilySearch - index & images; dates, records, and places vary; [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P00oMDsAsSw How to Search] | |||
Mississippi probate records include dockets, wills, settlements, petitions, letters, guardianships, claims, and minutes. | Mississippi probate records include dockets, wills, settlements, petitions, letters, guardianships, claims, and minutes. | ||
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Online Resources[edit | edit source]
- Mississippi, Wills and Probate Records, 1780-1982($), index and images, incomplete.
- 1781-1930 Mississippi, Probate Records, 1781-1930 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images
- Full-Text Search - Probate Records at FamilySearch - index & images; dates, records, and places vary; How to Search
Mississippi probate records include dockets, wills, settlements, petitions, letters, guardianships, claims, and minutes.
Probate records of Mississippi have been kept by the chancery courts or probate courts. You can obtain copies of the records by contacting the clerk's office in each county courthouse. Some probate papers are housed at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History.
The FamilySearch Library has copies of many Mississippi probate records, such as Hinds County inventories (1822 to 1882), bonds (1823 to 1869), wills (1870 to 1919), and executors' letters (1872 to 1919).
Transcripts of wills for 1799 to 1835 for Adams, Amite, Claiborne, Hinds, and Warren counties have been published in:
- King, J. Estelle. Mississippi Court Records, 1799-1835, 1936. Reprint; Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1969. FS Library Book 976.2 S2k; 1936 edition: FS Library Film 547551.
Some probate references can also be found in:
- Hendrix, Mary L. Mississippi Court Records From the Files of the High Court of Errors and Appeals, 1799-1859. Jackson, Miss.: M.L.F. Hendrix, 1950. FS Library Book 976.2 P2h.
References[edit | edit source]
A wiki article describing an online collection is found at:
Mississippi Tippah County Records - FamilySearch Historical Records