Dear Friends, Heads Up! New York County destroyed Letter of Administration files for 1830 and earlier but, these records appear at an in-person index search. Large municipalities may cull files like this periodically based upon what they deem as relevant today. Ancestry has an Index to NY County's Letters of Administration, as a drop down under the Death/Wills section. When a person dies without a valid will, a family may have filed a Letter of Administration, which is a request for the court to to appoint him/her as the Administrator of the estate. [NOTE: The above is an oversimplification] On Ancestry, info includes: l) name of deceased = "Name of Intestate" 2) name of person filing L of A= "Administrator" 3) date the L of A was processed 4) "Volume & Page" * These numbers identify the file to the court. What Ancestry states as "Volume," translates to the "Liber" [book] number in NY County. What Ancestry cites as "Page," as with the example "Page 215-0" means that one or many pages of the Letters of Administration begin on page 215 of that Liber. I hope this is useful to some researchers. Barb