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Will record, 1821- .

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Upon the death of a testator, an executor, legatee, or other person interested in the estate may have the will proved within five years before the proper probate court. The probate judge must then record in a book the testimony of witnesses and the will (see Ala. Code, 43-8-169 [1975]). This series consists of volumes that contain transcriptions of wills filed with the judge of probate and detail the division of property of the deceased. Also included are affidavits of witnesses to the wills and a certification endorsed by the probate judge. This record began in 1821 and continues to the present.

Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama Department of Archives and History

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Alabama County (Ala.). Probate Judges.

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Authorities: Acts of Alabama, 1849-50. Code of Alabama, 1975, Vol. 2, Constitutional Amendment No. 328. Norman, Keith B., ed. Handbook for Alabama Probate Judges. 3rd ed. Atlanta: Darby Printing Co., 1982. A court of probate was established in each Alabama county in 1850. The act that created the probate court abolished the county court and the orphans' court and transferred most of the jurisdiction of the county court to the court of ...