This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zh.2ADE/1958 Message Board Post: How would I go about finding a will for a death in 1902. I don't have an exact date of death. Did widows have wills in 1902? She was an immigrant, did not own land in Illinois, and was widowed before she came to the states. Wondering if she would have had one. Anyone be down this path before?

I doubt she had one if she didn't have anything to will to anyone. I have no idea WHY the County Government's website doesn't give instructions for finding wills and probates but I think you can probably get anyone of these people to tell you how to go about looking. I know that Wills/Probates are handled through the courts. http://www.whiteside.org/courts/courts.html Chris --- puterbaugha@aol.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zh.2ADE/1958 > > Message Board Post: > > How would I go about finding a will for a death in 1902. I don't have an exact date of > death. > > Did widows have wills in 1902? She was an immigrant, did not own land in Illinois, > and was widowed before she came to the states. Wondering if she would have had one. > > Anyone be down this path before? > > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > ===== __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Domains � Claim yours for only $14.70/year http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer