Hi! If you need to check probate records, the best thing to do is go to a library that has access to the LDS microfilms. Before you go in, go to Family Search, click on Library, then click on Search the catalog. Then click on place search, then enter Saline, and Illinois. To rent the microfilm costs $6.00 for one month. Robert Schneider >X-Message: #1 >Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 13:10:14 -0800 (PST) >From: nancy zimmerman <nkzim@sbcglobal.net> >To: ILSALINE-L@rootsweb.com >Message-ID: <20060215211015.28446.qmail@web81109.mail.mud.yahoo.com> >Subject: Probate records >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > >The Saline County Genealogical Society book, "Saline County, Illinois >Probate Records Vol. 1" has a reference to a probate for George Dew in >1850-51. I wrote to IRAD at SIU for a copy of those records, but received >a letter saying they can find nothing re: George Dew. Does anyone know >where these records can be found? Are they at one of the county offices? >Or does the Genealogical Society have actual copies? > > Thanks for any help and info. If anyone has any info about George >Washington Dew, I would appreciate it. He was in Saline in the 1830s and >40s, dying there in 1850. I am especially trying to find the cause (and >possible interesting story) of death. > > Thanks > Nancy