True, but that type of administration is called administration, with will attached or Administration d._._. I have been retired for 6 years and out of law school for many years and such latin terms long ago escaped my limited memory. Earnie BKAYMEL@aol.com wrote: In a message dated 10/14/2000 9:45:56 AM Central Daylight Time, ebreeding@yahoo.com writes: << By this we know that he died without a will, otherwise she would have been the executrix. >> He did die without a will as evidenced by the "int." meaning intestate but an administration does not necessarily indicate an intestate estate - if an estate is small enough or maybe doesn't contain any real property that needs to be disposed of, the estate can be "administered" instead of "executed". Kay ==== BLANKENSHIP Mailing List ==== If you have copies of BLANKENSHIP documents - birth, marriage, military, baptism, death records, etc., please consider sharing a copy with Listowner for the compilation of a central source of BLANKENSHIP documents to be offered to list members in the near future. Contact BKAYMEL@aol.com for more information.