Wills and Probate Records Delaware: Genealogy

Delaware Probate Records Database. Delaware Public Archives. LOCATION: Internet (http://www.state.de.us/sos/dpa/collections/probate.shtml): Available online from DPA. An index to the New Castle, Kent and Sussex County Register of Wills probate records in the Delaware Public Archives. Covers probates completed circa 1680 to circa 1925. This index is searchable by name of person whose property was in probate, year, and race; searches can be limited by country. If not available in Probate Record sources listed below, contact Delaware Public Archives to obtain copies of the wills and probates.

Clark, Raymond B. Kent County, Delaware, Wills and Administrations, 1680-1800: An Index. St. Michaels, MD: R. B. Clark, 1985. LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F172 .K3 C58 1985)

Clark, Raymond B. Sussex County, Delaware, Wills and Administrations, 1680-1800: An Index. St. Michaels, MD: R. B. Clark, 1985. LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F172 .S8 C52 1985)

Calendar of Kent County, Delaware, Probate Records, 1680-1800. Dover, DE: Public Archives Commission, 1944. LOCATION: Morris Library (F172 .K3 D45) LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F172 .K3 D45) LOCATION: Library Databases (via Ancestry Library Edition) [restricted to UD]: To access this file, go to Advanced Search, browse... by state, Kent County, Delaware Probate Records. Note: database version can be searched by any name in the record, e.g., a beneficiary.

Calendar of Sussex County, Delaware Probate Records: 1680-1800. Dover, DE: Public Archives Commission, 1964. LOCATION: Morris Library (F172 .S8 D4) LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F172 .S8 D4) LOCATION: Library Databases (via Ancestry Library Edition) [restricted to UD]: Note: database version can be searched by any name in the record, e.g., a beneficiary. (Go to Advanced Search, browse... by state)

National Society of Colonial Dames of America. Delaware. A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800. New York: Frederick H. Hitchcock, 1911. LOCATION: Morris Library (F172 .N5 N2 1911a) LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F172 .N5 N2) and (Del F172 .N5 N2x 1991) LOCATION: Library Databases (via Ancestry Library Edition) [restricted to UD]: Provides: place person lived, sometimes occupation, date will was made, date will was probated, names of beneficiaries/survivors, names of executors, letters and numbers referring to the Will Record and pages, where the full will is recorded in the Register's office. Arrangement is chronological. Indexed by name. Ancestry Library Edition has two different versions of this database: one titled "New Castle County, Delaware Wills, 1682-1800" and one titled "A Calendar of Delaware Wills, New Castle County, 1682-1800." (Go to Advanced Search, browse... by state)

A Random Sample of Kent County, Delaware, Estate Inventories, 1727-1775. Newark, DE: 1987. LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del Folio F172 .K3 R19x 1987): " ... 214 inventories selected at random from the probate files in the Hall of Records ..." Compiled by Richard L. Bushman and Anna L. Hawley.

Virdin, Donald Odell. Colonial Delaware Wills and Estates to 1880: An Index. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1994. LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F163 .V567 1994)

Virdin, Donald Odell. New Castle County, Delaware, Wills and Estates, 1682-1800: An Index. St. Michael's, MD: Raymond Clark, Jr., 1982. LOCATION: Morris Library (F172 .N5 V544 1982) LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F172 .N5 V544 1982)

New Castle County Probate Records, 1670-1860. LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfilm no. 3087): The wills and inventories are filmed alphabetically by the name of the person whose estate is being probated. 122 reels. This microfilm is a copy of the originals at Delaware Public Archives.

Will Book A / New Castle County Register of Wills, 1682-1854. LOCATION: Morris Library - Microforms (Microfilm S 364): 7 reels. Reel 7 contains an index of wills and administrations, 1683-1885. Film produced by the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

New Castle County, Delaware Wills, 1682-1800. LOCATION: Library Databases (via Ancestry Library Edition) [restricted to UD]: To locate this file, go to Advanced Search, browse... by state.

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Ancestry Library Edition. LOCATION: Library Databases [restricted to UD]: See "Court, Land & Probate Records" and "Advanced Search, browse... by state."

Delaware Genealogical Research Guide. 3rd ed. Wilmington, DE: Delaware Genealogical Society, 2002. LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref F163 .D349 2002) LOCATION: Morris Library - Special Collections (Del F163 .D349 2002): The most important guide for doing genealogical research in Delaware. It covers specific types of records and where they can be found in the state. Edited by Thomas P. Doherty and published by the Delaware Genealogical Society (http://delgensoc.org).

The Source: A Guidebook of American Genealogy. Rev. ed. Salt Lake City: Ancestry Publishing Company, 1997. LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref CS49 .S65 1997): See pages 201-211.

Delaware Court Records: A Research Guide. LOCATION: Internet (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/genealogy/resguide/ctrec.htm)

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