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 U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
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A Guide to Copies and Abstracts of Irish Wills
Aberdeen, Scotland, Register of Testaments, 1715-1800
Abstract of Early Kentucky Wills and Inventories
Abstract of North Carolina Wills [1663-1760]
Abstract of Probate Records, Washington County, Ohio
Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1687-1745
Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1745-1762
Abstracts of Early Wills 1763-1790 (1749-1790), Mecklenburg County North Carolina
Abstracts of Fauquier County Virginia, Wills Inventories and Accounts 1759-1800
Abstracts of Fauquier County, Virginia
Abstracts of Partitions and Divisions of the New Jersey Counties of Monmouth, Mercer, and Burlington
Abstracts of the Wills and Inventories of Bath County, Virginia, 1791-1842
Abstracts of Wills and Inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742-1801
Abstracts of Wills and Other Records, Currituck and Dare Counties, North Carolina (1663-1850)
Abstracts of Wills, Inventories, and Administration Accounts of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1800
Ages from Court Records, 1636-1700
Alabama Land Records
American Colonists in English Records
American Data from the Records of the High Court of the Admiralty of Scotland, 1675-1800
American Wills and Administrations
American Wills Proved in London, 1611-1775
An Abstract of North Carolina Wills
Annals of Southwest Virginia, 1769-1800
Anson County, North Carolina Deed Abstracts, 1749-1766, Abstracts of Wills & Estates, 1749-1795
Arkansas Land Records
Australia - Convict Savings Bank Books, 1824-1886
Australian Convict Index, 1788-1868 - Free Index
Ayrshire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
Baltimore County Land Records, 1665-1687
Baltimore, Maryland Tax Records Index, 1798-1808
Banffshire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
Barren County, Kentucky Wills, 1800-24
Bath County, Kentucky Wills, 1811-24
Bedfordshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
Berks County, Pennsylvania Estate Records, 1752-1914
Blacks Found in the Deeds of Laurens & Newberry Counties, SC: 1785-1827
Boston, Massachusetts, Report of the Record Commissioners, 1736-42
Boston, Massachusetts, Report of the Record Commissioners, Miscellaneous Papers
Box Elder County, Utah Mining Notices of Location, 1889-1893
Box Elder County, Utah Mining Records, 1890-1892
British Chancery Records, 1386-1558
Buchanan County, Missouri Taxpayers, 1887-90
Buchanan County, Missouri Taxpayers, 1891-95, 1901
Buchanan County, Missouri Taxpayers, 1896-1900
Buckinghamshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
Bute County, North Carolina Court Minutes, 1767-79
Bute County, North Carolina: Minutes of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, 1767-1779
Cache County, Utah Civil Case Files, 1860-1887
Caithness, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800
Calendar of New Jersey Wills, 1670-1760
Cambridge, Massachusetts Town Records, 1630-1703
Cambridgeshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
Carroll County, Missouri Wills and Administrations, 1834-70
Caswell County, NC Will Books, 1777-1843; 1784 Tax List; and Guardians' Accounts, 1794-1819
Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, Vol. I
Character Certificates in the General Land Office of Texas
Chariton County, Missouri Wills and Administrations, 1861-75
Charters of Bury St Edmunds' Medieval Hospitals
Charters of St Bartholomew's Priory, Sudbury
Cheshire, England: Parish and Probate Records
Chester County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1713-1825
Chowan County, North Carolina Cross Index to Deeds - Grantees 1696-1878 Vol B
Churchwardens' Accounts of Cratfield, 1640-1660
Clackmannanshire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
Clark County, Kentucky Wills 1792-1826, Vol. 1-2
Colchester, Connecticut Settlement Records
Cornwall, England: Parish and Probate Records
Cumberland County, Pennsylvania Quarter Session Dockets 1750-1785
Currituck County [North Carolina] Eighteenth Century Tax & Militia Records
Darke County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records, 1817-1860
Denver Land Office Records, 1862-1908
Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710
Dorset, England: Parish and Probate Records
Dumfries-shire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
Dunbartonshire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
Dundonald, Scotland Charter Chest, 1219-1672
Early Pennsylvania Land Records
Early Pennsylvania Land Records
Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep and Tangled Branches. Volume II
Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches, Vol. III
Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Vol. I
Eastern Townships and South Western Quebec, Canada Land/Gazetteer Records: 1881
Edgefield County, South Carolina Wills, Books 1-2
Elizabethan Ipswich Town Finances
England Manorial Law and Customs
English Estates of American Colonists, 1610-1699
English Estates of American Colonists, 1700-1799
English Estates of American Settlers
Essex County, Massachusetts Depositions, 1636-86
Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1635-1681
Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Records, Part 1
Essex County, Massachusetts Probate Records, Supplement
Essex, England: Parish and Probate Records
Essex, Massachusetts Probate Records, 1638-1840
Eye Priory Cartulary and Charters
Fayette County, Kentucky Wills 1794-1818
Field Book of Walsham-Le-Willows, 1577
Flintshire, Wales: Parish and Probate Records
Florida Land Records
Frederick County, Virginia, Wills & Administrations, 1795-1816
French And British Land Grants In The Post Vincennes (Indiana) District, 1750-1784
Genealogical Gleanings in England, Vol. II
Georgia Cherokee Land Lottery, 1832
Georgia Land Lottery, 1827
Georgia Tax Index, 1789-1799
Glamorgan, Wales: Parish and Probate Records
Green County, Kentucky Wills 1796-1824
Greenup County, Kentucky Will Records: 1822-1843
Hampshire County [West] Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1800-1814
Hampshire County Records, 1816-1923, Virginia/West Virginia
Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Volume I--Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802
Hampshire County, Virginia (now, West Virginia): Volume II--Minute Book Abstracts 1817-1823
Hanover County [VA] Taxpayers (St. Paul's Parish), 1782-1815
Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1635-50
Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1700-29
Hartford, Connecticut Probate Records, 1729-50
Henry County, Kentucky Will Records for 1800 to July 1821
Henry Mining District, Sevier County, Utah, 1883-1896
Idaho County, Idaho Newspaper Tax Lists, 1886-93
Illinois Public Land Purchase Records
Illinois Servitude and Emancipation Records, 1720-1865
Independent (New York City) Ministerial Register, 1892-95
Index to Alabama Wills, 1808-1870
Index to the Prerogative Wills of Ireland 1536-1810
Index to the Tithables of Loudoun County, Virginia, and to Slaveholders and Slaves, 1758-1786
Index to Wills of Charleston County, South Carolina, 1671-1868
Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1857, Vol. I
Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1857, Vol. II
Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1857, Vol. III
Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1857, Vol. IV
Indexes to Irish Wills, 1536-1857, Vol. V
Indexes to the County Wills of South Carolina
Indian Wills, 1911-1921
Intestates and Others from the Orphans Court Books of Monmouth Co., N.J., 1785-1906
Iosco County, Michigan Early Land Owners, 1841-1896 - Free Index
Iosco County, Michigan Paupers, 1869-1934 - Free Index
Iosco County, Michigan Plat Book, 1903 - Free Index
Ipswich Probate Inventories, 1583-1631
Ireland, Index to Griffith’s Valuation, 1848-1864
Ireland, Tithe Applotment Books, 1824-1837
Irish Flax Growers List, 1796
Irish Wills Indexes
Jasper County, Missouri Wills 1842-90
Jefferson County, Mississippi Wills, 1800-33
Kansas Settlers, 1854-1879
Kendall County, Illinois Voters and Tax-Payers Directory, 1876
Kent County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800
Kentucky Court and Other Records
Kentucky Court and Other Records, Vol. I
Kentucky Land Grants
Kentucky Will Index
Kentucky Will Index, Vol. 2
Lancaster, Pennsylvania Probate Index, 1729-1850
Land Claims in Mississippi Territory, 1789-1834
Land Grants to Georgia Revolutionary War Veterans
Landholders of Northeastern New York, 1739-1802
Leavenworth County, Kansas Tax Payers, 1900-1920
Leavenworth, Kansas Tax List, 1895-97, 1899-1900
Lincoln County, Kentucky Wills and Administrations, Vol. 1
Lincoln County, Maine: Probates, 1760-1800
Linn County, Missouri Wills, 1820-78
List of Freemen of Massachusetts, 1630-1691
Livingston County, Missouri Deeds, 1855-57, Volumes 2, 3, 5, 6
Livingston County, Missouri Deeds, Books 1 and 2
Livingston County, Missouri Probate Records, Volumes I, III, V, and VII-XIII
Livingston County, Missouri Wills and Administrations 1837-1870
Louisiana Land Records
Lower Norfolk County, Virginia Court Records: Book "A" 1637-1646 and Book "B" 1646-1651/2
Loyalists and Land Settlement in Nova Scotia
Macon County, Missouri, Will Records & Marriage Records: 1838-80
Maine Court Records, 1696-1854
Maine Will Abstracts, 1640-1760
Maine Wills, 1640-1760
Marion County, Missouri Wills: 1853-87
Maryborough, Queensland Australia Immigrants from the British Isles & Germany 1861-91 - Free Index
Maryland Calendar of Wills
Massachusetts Applications of Freemen, 1630-91
Massachusetts Freemen
Massachusetts Name Changes, 1780-1892
Mayflower Deeds & Probates
Mercer County, Kentucky Wills 1818-1826
Michigan Land Records
Middlesex County, Massachusetts Deponents, 1649-1700
Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1648-1870
Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1871-1909 (Part A-K)
Minnesota County History Name Index
Minnesota Land Records
Mississippi County Court Records
Mississippi Court Records, 1799-1835
Mississippi Court Records, 1799-1835
Mississippi Land Records
Montgomery County, Kentucky Wills: 1796-1821
Native Soil Manuscripts Index
Nauvoo, Illinois Tax Index, 1842
Nevada Car Registration Records, 1913-18
Nevada Orphan's Home Records, 1870-1920
New Ashford, Massachusetts Land Owners, 1842-1900
New Castle County, Delaware Wills, 1682-1800
New Hampshire Probate Records, 1635-1753
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., Vol I
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., Vol II
New Jersey Index of Wills, Inventories, Etc., Vol III
New Kent County, Virginia Land Tax Records, 1782
New York Alien Residents, 1825-1848
New York City Wills, 1665-1707
New York City Wills, 1706-1790
New York City Wills, 1708-1728
New York City Wills, 1730-1744
New York City Wills, 1744-1753
New York City Wills, 1754-1760
New York City Wills, 1760-1766
New York City Wills, 1766-1771
New York City Wills, 1771-1776
New York City Wills, 1777-1783
New York City Wills, 1780-1782
New York County, Letters of Administration Index, 1743-1875 (Barber Collection)
New York Supreme Court Plaintiffs, 1824-1911
New York Wills, 1626-1836
Nodaway County, Missouri Wills and Administrations 1845-1880
Norfolk County, MA Probate Index 1793-1900
Norfolk County, Virginia Will Abstracts, 1710-1753
North Carolina Land Grants in South Carolina
North Carolina Taxpayers, 1679-1790. Vol. 2
North Carolina Taxpayers, 1701-1786
North Carolina Will Abstracts, 1660-1790
North Carolina Will Abstracts, 1760-1800
North Carolina Wills
North Carolina Wills and Inventories
North Carolina Wills and Inventories
Ohio Early Land Ownership Records
Ohio Land Records
Ontario, Canada Land Gazetteer, 1875-81
Patents and Deeds and Other Early Records of New Jersey 1664-1703
Person County, North Carolina Compilations, 1792-1823
Person County, North Carolina Deed Books 1792-1825
Perthshire, Scotland: Parish and Probate Records
Petitions of Kentucky Inhabitants to the General Assembly of Virginia, 1769-1792
Pettis County, Missouri: Index to the General Probate Index, 1833-1875
Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1682-1819
Pictou County, Nova Scotia, Canada Land/Gazetteer Records: 1879
Preble County, Ohio Common Pleas Court Records 1810-1850
Preble County, Ohio Deed Records 1808-1821
Preble County, Ohio Wills Vol. I 1806-1836 Vol. II 1836-1854
Prince Edward Island, Canada Land/Gazetteer Records: 1880
Prince William County, Virginia Wills, Part 1, 1734-1951
Prince William County, Virginia Wills, Part 2, 1734-1920
Providence Early Town Records
Quaker Records, Dublin, Abstracts of Wills
Quebec Notarial Records (Drouin Collection), 1647-1942
Ralls County, Missouri Wills, Volume I, 1824-1872
Randolph County, Missouri Administration and Wills: 1836-1858
Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia
Records of Jones County, North Carolina, 1779-1868 Vol. I
Records of the town of East-Hampton, Long Island, Suffolk County, New York, Vol. 2, 4, and 5
Red Book of the Exchequer
Republic of Texas Poll Lists for 1846
Return of Owners of Land in Ireland 1876
Revolutionary Records of Maryland
Revolutionary War Bounty Land Grants
Salt Lake County, Index to Probate Case Files, 1852-81
Salt Lake County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852-1887
Salt Lake County, Utah Coroners' Inquest Case Files, 1870-1871, 1886-1937
Sammlung sämmtlicher Drucksachen des Hauses der Abgeordneten aus der IX. Legislatur-Periode II. (außerordentlichen) Session, 1867 (in German) - Free Index
Saratoga County, New York Wills, 1796-1805
Scott County, Kentucky Wills: 1794-1820
Scottish-American Court Records, 1733-1783
Scottish-American Heirs, 1683-1883
Scottish-American Wills, 1650-1900
Settlers of Maryland, 1679-1700
Settlers of Maryland, 1731-1750
Settlers of Maryland, 1751-1765
Settlers of Maryland, 1766-1783
Shelby County, Kentucky Wills: 1794-1817
Shenandoah County, Virginia Wills, 1771-91
Sibton Abbey Estates, 1325-1509
Spanish and British Land Grants in Mississippi Territory, 1750-1784
Spotsylvania, Virginia County Records, 1721-1800
Stephenson County, Illinois Farmer Directory, 1917
Sudbury Archdeaconry Wills, 1439-1638
Suffolk County Wills
Sullivan County, Missouri Wills, 1849-1880
Sumner County, Tennessee Abstracts of Will Books 1 and 2 (1788-1842)
Surry County Records
Susquehanna County, Silver Lake Township, Pennsylvania, 1878 -79 tax rolls - Free Index
Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records, 1680-1800
Tax Lists of Wilson Couty, Tennessee, 1803-1807
Texas Land Title Abstracts
The Burlington Court Book
The Jury Lists of South Carolina, 1778-1779
The Natchez Court Records, 1767-1805
This Was the Life, Excerpts from the Judgment Records of Frederick County, Maryland, 1748-1765
To Maryland from Overseas
Tryon County, North Carolina Court Minutes, 1769-79
U.S. Freedmen Bank Records, 1865-1874
U.S. Freedmen Bureau Records of Field Offices, 1865-1872
U.S. General Land Office Records, 1796-1907
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 1
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 2
U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 3 - Free Index
U.S. Southern Claims Commission Master Index, 1871-1880
U.S. Southern Claims Commission, Allowed Claims, 1871-1880
U.S. Southern Claims Commission, Disallowed and Barred Claims, 1871-1880
Utah Third District Court, Territorial Criminal Case Files Index, 1882-96
Virginia County Records, Volume IX
Virginia County Records, Volume VI
Virginia County Records, Volume VII
Virginia County Records, Volume X
Virginia County Records: Westmoreland County, Volume I
Virginia Gleanings in England
Virginia Land Patents of the Counties of Norfolk, Princess Anne & Warwick
Virginia Land Records
Virginia Land, Marriage, and Probate Records, 1639-1850
Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742. [Vol. I]
Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775. [Vol. II]
Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800. [Vol. III]
Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1800-1862. [Vol. IV]
Virginia Tax Records
Virginia Will Records
Warrants for Land in South Carolina, 1672-1679
Warrants for Land in South Carolina, 1680-1692
Warrants for Land in South Carolina, 1692-1711
Watertown, Massachusetts Lands, Grants, and Possessions
Wayne County, Ohio Tax Lists, 1913, 1914, and 1916
Weber County, Utah Civil and Criminal Case Files, 1852-1887
Weber County, Utah Probate Court Civil and Criminal Case Registers of Actions, 1868-1887
West Virginia Estate Settlements
Western New York Land Transactions, 1804-1824
Western New York Land Transactions, 1825-1835
Westmoreland County, Virginia Wills, 1654-1800
Wigtown, Scotland Charter Chest, 1214-1681
Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County, Virginia 1688-1800
Wills and Administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800
Wills and Administrations of Southampton County, Virginia, 1749-1800
Wills of Richmond County, Virginia, 1699-1800
Wills of the Archdeaconry of Sudbury, 1439-1461
Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1620-1624
Wills of the Archdeaconry of Suffolk, 1625-1626
Wisconsin Land Records
Worcester County, Massachusetts, Probate Index, Vol. 1 & 2 A - Z, July 1731-1881
World War II Japanese-American Internment Camp Documents, 1942-1946
Wright County, Missouri: Marriages (1897-1900) & Wills (1859-1874)
York County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1749-1819
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