Course Enrollment: AM-205 American: Probate Records

Optional Print Course Material: American: Probate Records

*Course material will only be sent to students who are registered in the course.

This course discusses legal records created by the courts when an ancestor died. Some individuals had wills written before death, and in other cases “administration” records were kept of people who died without a will. Many other records could have been created depending on the time period, place, and prominence of the ancestor.