Karen Conley writes: > Do you know if there is a record of wills and estates for Gurnsey > County for the years 1850 to 1860? I would look in the LDS library records. There should be microfilm. What I have seen for the earlier records is - inventory book - administrator's docket book This latter is like a diary or a minute book The former is kind of like the probate records you might see for, say, 1900-1950 (or even today). But less formal & less complex. I don't know where the wills are. There may be yet a 3rd repository. But I don't know if they had a recording function back then. Wills are mentioned in some of the docket entries. I don't think they are in the inventory, but I haven't looked very hard in there because the entries I was looking for are in the Empty Period (1834-1842). There is an indexed book ,which I do not have access to, Ohio Wills and Estates to 18--? Might finish before 1850. I would recommend also that you contact the local library, the genealogical society, and then the county clerk. There are supposed to be some estate packet collections and supposedly these went to the genealogical society. But I'm not sure what period this "supposedly" covers :^)