Sallie, Just a few words of advice. First of all, even though your person died in 1847, he lived a long, long time before that. He bought and sold land, some of it presumably to his children. These transactions are found in the deeds, and some of them even in that Vol. G to which I referred earlier. He was also involved in other people's wills. He was a justice of the peace and also witnessed many other documents. Some of these documents might give you a clue as to who his associates were. Some of them might even turn out to be relatives. And even if he didn't have a will per se, he had an estate which had to be settled. In addition to Bonnie's good lead about looking at the deeds to see how the land was distributed following his death, you still want to look at those estate records. Often they will give you spouses' names, possibly brothers' or sons' names if they were asked to serve as an administrator. And don't overlook the estate sales where you might see family gathering to purchase some of grandpa's old things. So don't despair because of his failure to provide a will. They are often easy references, but you can glean a lot from the other sources as well. Hope this might help you not be too discouraged. Lorraine On Tue, 13 Jun 2000 20:32:22 -0700 Sallie Cleave <sallie@vol.com> writes: > Just my luck. The person I'm researching died May 1847. > > Thanks for the info tho'. I will keep this in my file for future > reference. > > Sallie > > lorraineq@juno.com wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000 20:18:53 -0700 Sallie Cleave <sallie@vol.com> > writes: > > > Can anyone tell me how to search for a will in Belmont Co.? > Please > > > keep > > > in mind, I am in California. *smile* > > > > > > Thanks for any help you can give. > > > > ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.