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    1. Re: [NYC-ROOTS] NYC-ROOTS How to find wills on familysearch.org
    2. Barbara Kiersh via
    3. I thought the wills could be in a wiki, so I opened the wiki tab and blundered on from there.  It worked but they don't make it easy.  Here's my steps.  Hope I wrote them down correctly as I backspaced from step one. 1.  In the Search tab drop down to Wiki.2.  Search by place or topic - Enter Wills3. Choose United State Probate Records4. Probate by state - Choose NY6.  Scroll down to bottom of page for county.  (You'll see the years of film available.)  I chose Kings Probate records.  This says 19th century.  Pay not attention to this.)7. Then choose NY, Kings County estate files, 1866-1923.8. Screen says, To view digital images click here.9.  Enter name and there's the will. I'm going to try Queens next and hopefully it will work it's magic for me again.  The will I found was for my grandmother's brother who died in 1914.  This was interesting.  It appears that he and his wife had a 9 year old foster daughter that I knew nothing about.  She's mentioned as one of the heirs in the will.  In 1920, his widow is living with her brother and family.  This foster child isn't with her.  She may have died but there's no record of her in the German Genealogy index database.  His widow probably remarried after 1920 because sadly enough his double tombstone has just his dates.  She's buried somewhere else.  And probably with someone else. Barbara KiershJacksonville, FL On Thursday, April 9, 2015 10:11 AM, Robert Pieterse via <[email protected]> wrote: What  is  the  URL  for Joyce's link -----Original Message----- From: Elizabeth Knowlton via <[email protected]> To: nyc-roots <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Apr 9, 2015 7:10 am Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] NYC-ROOTS How to find wills on familysearch.org Sorry, I know how clunky family search catalog place name use is, and I have just tried that to no avail. I used Joyce's link that took me to a list of NY counties, chose New York County (for Manhattan), and got a list of probate reels.  Near the end was an index made later for volumes up to the 20th century,  I used that to get the vol. number.  Then I clicked on that volume number.     Of course I do nto have Joyce's link handy and am rushing at 7 AM to leave the house.  Her link will be saved of course on this mailing list. Elizabeth On 4/9/2015 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > this  is  the  only  link  LDS  has  to  will  and  probate  for NTY >  >  > https://familysearch.org/search/collection/list/?page=1&countryId=22&recordType=Legal ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

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