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Index to District of Columbia Estates 1801-1929

Best.-Nr. 101-p4588Heritage Books Inc. new. new new Until now researchers have had ready access to only a small portion of available historic personal estate records of the District of Columbia in the form of published will abstracts and indexes to wills This index provides nearly 54000 references to estates for which many have surviving loose papers and includes new references to over 21000 estate administrations and hundreds of wills not previously found in published will indexes The original source records can be found either at the National Archives on Pennsylvania Avenue or at the DC Archives in Washington DC The first source record used for this information is a series of 5""""x 8"""" index cards that were transferred from the Register of Wills Probate Division of the DC Superior Court to the DC Archives in December 1992 Second various data were extracted from many original or microfilmed wills as well as loose paper packets This index helps researchers overcome numerous problems with the microfilmed and original wills and index cards including: a items are greatly out of alphabetical or chronological sequence; b folder labels may not match contents ie quite a few labels give the name of the spouse or executor/executrix rather than the testator; c folder labels may be spelled incorrectly; d folders may contain administration papers where there was no will; e not all pages or faces were microfilmed; or f original index cards are missing Each entry here provides the name of the deceased the docket number assigned to the activity the earliest date a will was written not necessarily listing multiple wills and codicils the date a will was filed the bound book in which the will was copied the box at the DC Archives in which the original will can be found and the date of the earliest petition for letters testamentory or for estate administrator or similar Not all estates have surviving estate papers Many of the wills found were not probated in the DC Courts and came from other jurisdictions In these cases it is likely there is no packet of additional loose papers Although there is much more estate-related data still to be gathered ie bonds inventories sales accounts etc the intent of this index is to provide a preliminary inventory of wills and administrations and to launch and enable further research Wesley E Pippenger 2008 8½x11 cloth alphabetical 850 pp ISBN: 9780788445880 101-P4588 Heritage Books, Inc. hardcover

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