Thank you very much - I hadn't thought about the probate records. I appreciate your help - Cindy -----Original Message----- From: William G. Bates <[email protected]> To: arsebast <[email protected]> Sent: Wed, Jul 6, 2011 9:41 pm Subject: Re: [ARSEBAST] Lizzie B. DUNWELL, landowner in Ft. Smith in 1934 Probably the first thing you need to do is find out where the will was probated hen go to where their records are kept and obtain a copy of the complete robate records. The will would have to be probated before the nephew could laim that property that is fully described (usually by deed number or similar) nd then he would have to take a copy of the probated will to the probate court n Sebastian County, if the original probate was in another state, so they can robate the land to him. There is a lot of legal wrangling here such as where as the will drawn up, where did she die, was the will probated in her area or omewhere else, or was it probated at all? I am not sure but believe that where here is any estate over a certain amount to be settled, all states require the ill to be probated properly before that estate can be passed to the will's roclaimed heirs. I am in the process of having my will drawn up here in Texas nd even though my estate will be under the ! limit the lawyer says the will MUST be probated in order to name the xecutor(s) and then everything is turned over to them. I am quite sure most tates have something similar which may have been in effect from about 1900 or o with the advent of "Death Estate Taxes" which also set the limit. parkgapper On Jul 6, 2011, at 4:11 PM, [email protected] wrote: > According to her will, my ancestor Lizzie B. DUNWELL owned real estate "in the own of Fort Smith, Arkansas and in Sebastian County." The will was written in 1934, and she died in 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri. he left the real estate to her nephew, Rowland R. Dunwell. Does anyone know where I can find information about this land?Where is it, how ig is it? How did she acquire it? (She never lived in Fort Smith.) What did owland Dunwell do with the land? (He lived in Ohio.) Thanks for any tips about how to find this information! Cindy ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message