Estate case files, 1821- .

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Estate case files, 1821- .

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Upon the recording of the various instruments presented in estate settlements, the originals are gathered and filed in the probate office. This series consists of inventories, appraisals, affidavits, bank statements, wills, petitions for property division, and any other information pertaining to the settlement of the estate. This record began in 1821 and continues to the present.

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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 ...