1835-1847

1835-1847
Author: Sebastian Hensel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1882
Genre:
ISBN:

Researching British Probates, 1354-1858: Northern England

Researching British Probates, 1354-1858: Northern England
Author: David H. Pratt
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1992
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780842024204

Researching British Probates is a guide to the over 20,000 microfilm rolls of British wills and related documents in the Family History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Housed in Salt Lake City, Utah, the collection is available through 1,700 branch libraries across the country and worldwide. Few depositories in Britain itself can compete with the collection's comprehensiveness: the microfilm spans six centuries and brings together bonds, wills, property inventories, guardianship papers and other documents that lie scattered throughout England. Now, by using this work, social historians and genealogists can obtain the exact rolls of microfilm they need.

Surry County, North Carolina, Wills, 1771-1827

Surry County, North Carolina, Wills, 1771-1827
Author: Jo White Linn
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 228
Release: 1992
Genre: Surry County (N.C.)
ISBN: 0806313463

Based on recorded wills and original wills at the North Carolina State Archives as well as "Loose Estate Papers" of intestates, these abstracts cover not only wills but powers of attorney, bonds, inventories, bills of sale, etc. Significantly, Surry County lay within the Granville Proprietary at its formation, and after Lord Granville's death in 1763 until 1778, the Proprietary land office did not reopen, making it very difficult--but for these will abstracts--for the present-day researcher to establish the residence of many individuals during that time period. What is more, as there are no extant marriage bonds for Surry County for the period 1771 to 1780, these will abstracts assume an importance out of all proportion to their customary value.