Massachusetts: Early Probate Records, 1793-1900[edit | edit source]

Purpose[edit | edit source]

To Add Probate Records for MA Towns

Contact[edit | edit source]

Trisha

Task List[edit | edit source]

Probate Records for Massachusetts

NOTE: You can scroll through tabs on Google Sheets. Next to the first tab, there are four lines stacked vertically. If you click that, you can see a complete list of all tabs on the Google Sheet. Additionally, next to the last tab, there are right and left arrows that you can click to scroll through.

Example Page[edit | edit source]

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Instructions[edit | edit source]

There are new collections that need to be added separately to locality pages in Norfolk County.

1. You will need to sign up for a locality under a collection title tab on the Norfolk County .

Project Instructions[edit | edit source]

Choose a Town from the Massachusetts County Task List

Put your name by The Town in the Massachusetts County Task List

Click the Town link to open up the new Town page
In the Table of Contents on the top left of the Town page scroll down and click on the Probate Records link
Next by the Probate Records click on the Edit source link and open the Editing (section)
Copy & Paste the Wiki Text on this Wiki Project instruction page in the sections below to the Probate Records Editing (section) on the Town page
Make sure to Copy & Paste underneath the sentence or paragraph introduction if there is one
Do not remove other links or information except for duplicates...replace old links with new links
Put all old and new Probate Records links together into a chronological order list, if there are no dates then put those Probate Record links below the date list and arrange them in alphabetical order
Click on Show Preview
Copy & Paste the Summary WikiText in the sections below into the Summary box on the Town page:

/*Probate Records for Massachusetts Towns */

Click on Save changes
Make sure all of the Town Probate Record links work by clicking on them and opening them up to the right Records page, then in the....

Put the date you finished by your name
Start the instructions over again by clicking open a new Town to work in, in the

Top of Page

Step One - Sign Up[edit | edit source]

Sign your name next to a county on the [--] tab of the task list.

NOTE: You can scroll through tabs on Google Sheets. Next to the first tab, there are four lines stacked vertically. If you click that, you can see a complete list of all tabs on the Google Sheet. Additionally, next to the last tab, there are right and left arrows that you can click to scroll through.

Step Two - Click the Link[edit | edit source]

Using the links on the task list, click the locality you want to work on.

Step Three - Click Probate Records in the Contents[edit | edit source]

In the contents, select Probate Records. This should jump you down to the Subheading Probate Records. You can also just scroll down to this subheading.

Step Four - Click Edit Source next to Probate Records[edit | edit source]

Click Edit Source next to Probate Records.

Copy the following code and paste it in chronological order by date under the small paragraph about probate records.

Exceptions:

If the link is already on the page, replace it with this new link to make it match the new manual of style. Do not worry about other entries on the page that are not in accordance with the manual of style.
If there are no other entries with dates, put this as the first bullet.
If there is a note about there being no online records available, please replace that note with this link.

*'''1635-1750''' [https://www.americanancestors.org/search/databasesearch/1658/norfolk-county-ma-index-to-probate-records-1793-1900 Norfolk County, MA: Index to Probate records, 1793-1900] at American Ancestors — index & images, ($)

Click Show Preview to make sure it looks good and the link works.

Enter in

/*Probate Records New Collections Project*/

as the Summary.

Click Save Changes.

Here is an example of what it should look like.