How to Search Probate Records in GenealogyBank’s Newspaper Archives
By Thomas Jay Kemp on November 13, 2012
State laws required that a legal notice of a probate action be posted in local newspapers. This was the state’s method to get the word out to all interested parties that an estate was going to be disbursed to the heirs and creditors. These legal requirements varied across the country, but we can reasonably... (Read More)