Surrogate Court records are for the whole county. There are two ledgers which contain a "roughly" alphabetical index for those who are deceased from the 1790's to the present time. The same ledger is for those who died with a will and those who did not. In St. Lawrence County, for example, there are separate ledgers for those who died testate and intestate. These ledgers give the death date and administrative dates. The actual probate documents are filed elsewhere in the room, in small steel containers, by first letter of the last name, and then by date. These usually contain the petition, which is useful for genealogists because it has the names of living relatives, and the estate inventory, which I always find fascinating. The will, if any, is retyped and inserted into a will book. In St. Lawrence County, the will, or a handwritten copy of it (before the advent of typewriters) is filed with the rest of the probate documents. In modern times, survivors of a deceased person in St. Lawrence County are asked to fill out a genealogical chart going back a couple of generations and forward three or so generations from the deceased. Now ain't that wonderful! For TB deaths, I would check Saranac Lake records. Maybe he died at the Trudeau Sanitarium (of which Doonesbury Creator Gary Trudeau is a descendant). I believe that Saranac probates were handled by Clinton County Surrogate Court but wouldn't want to say so emphatically without checking a map. By the way, I found the people at the Surrogate Court office very pleasant to deal with and very helpful. tom [email protected] wrote: > To Thomas , Were those death records you found in Plattsburg Probate Court > for all of Clinton County. I am looking for the death of my gr-grandfather > who died of TB around 1885 in Clinton County but I do not know where he > died. His wife and children were in Dannemora at the time but he did not die > there. Any suggestion? Margo