I found an individual in the General Index, Surrogates Office, Greene County (FHL film # 0480085), which gives the following info: Lemuel Hopkins, box 167, pkg 4082, letters admin. vol. D, p. 24 Now, how do I find the probate records from this? I think I know how to get the film for the letters of admin book, but how do I find box 167, pkg 4082 to get all the documents? There is another set of FHL films called Estate Papers, Greene County, which are cataloged by number, but Im not sure if this number corresponds to the 4082 above. For example, there is FHL film # 0480476 for Estate Papers, H, no. 4026-4099. Will this give me pkg 4082? Or what film is this on (if any)? Does anyone have experience with using these Greene County probate films that can tell me how to get what I want? Thanks, Lance
Lance, That box/packet number doesn't look right to me. It doesn't seem to fit with what I remember the sequences as being, see the index of Greene County Clow/Clough wills: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2/clough_clow_wills_index.htm The index refers to all kinds of libers of records, other than the will libers, to find individual pieces of information in, but I found that with the box/packet number you can get a folder that contains all of the records shown in the above. In any event, the highest box number I remember was 109 for 1990. What I remember of the packet numbers is that they ran in sequence and that when a new packet wouldn't fit in a box they would start a new box with the next highest number and the packets would continue to increment by one. If I'm remembering correctly, the boxes began as numbers, switched to letters and then went back to numbers. The packet number sequence may have re-started at one, or more, of those switchovers. Is this making any sense? Looking at the FHL Library Catalog - it's my impression that none of the films correspond to the document packets, but refer to libers. If they do correspond to the will document packets - I can't discern any pattern. The Greene County Historical Society holds all the early records, up to about 1920, or so, and they could help you out for about the same cost, more or less, as renting a couple of FHL films. They also have the indexes in liber form. Later records are still with the County Surrogate in Catskill at the Courthouse. Hope this helps, Jim -----Original Message----- From: lance.ware@cox.net [mailto:lance.ware@cox.net] Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 8:01 PM To: NYGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GREENE COUNTY] Greene County probate records on LDS film I found an individual in the General Index, Surrogates Office, Greene County (FHL film # 0480085), which gives the following info: Lemuel Hopkins, box 167, pkg 4082, letters admin. vol. D, p. 24 Now, how do I find the probate records from this? I think I know how to get the film for the letters of admin book, but how do I find box 167, pkg 4082 to get all the documents? There is another set of FHL films called Estate Papers, Greene County, which are cataloged by number, but Im not sure if this number corresponds to the 4082 above. For example, there is FHL film # 0480476 for Estate Papers, H, no. 4026-4099. Will this give me pkg 4082? Or what film is this on (if any)? Does anyone have experience with using these Greene County probate films that can tell me how to get what I want? Thanks, Lance ==== NYGREENE Mailing List ==== The Diary of John Barr, Ensign in the Revolutionary War. Come read about our revolutionary past from the eyes of one who lived it! http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygreen2 ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx