Hi: Kathleen gave me permission to post her message below. It has some good hints about searching appellate court records, Regards, Nan [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------- From: Kathleen Woodside Freiburg <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: Appellate Court Records?! Date: Saturday, August 26, 2000 11:44 PM Hi, Listers . . . I subscribe to a free daily email service called EVERTON'S FAMILY HISTORY NEWSLINE sponsored by: The Genealogical Helper. To subscribe to the free newsline send an email message to [email protected] with the message: subscribe history . Leave subject blank.: I get short but informative article on a different topic of genealogical research each day. Thursday's really took me by surprise! I'd never heard of this and can't say I've ever heard anyone discuss it either so I wanted to share it. Have you ever thought of searching Appellate Court Records? Nor had I! Seems they are printed and arranged chronologically by court, with alphabetic indexes to the parties involved. These records are typically found in legal libraries of law schools, large legal firms, and state governments. Has anyone in your family ever contested a will? Well, this is where that wealth of information will be found. I understand a lot more of these are going online, too. Here are some links to explore further; the last a link to Everton for reprints. United States Appellate Court Records http://www.everton.com/oe3-14/appeal.htm Texas Appellate Court Case Search http://www.info.courts.state.tx.us/appindex/appindex.exe California Appellate Courts Case Information System http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.gov/ Recent articles are available online at http://www.everton.com/FHN/ And, to subscribe to the Genealogical Helper magazine - http://www.everton.com/subscribe Kathy W-F mailto:[email protected]