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    1. [OHGUERNS] Missing - Inventory of estates 1826-1847
    2. Michael Helm
    3. A piece of this Guernsey Co record is missing. Anyone know the story? I have been looking for information on Benjamin Helm's estate (d intestate 1837/38 in Guernsey Co). The administrative docket or minute book mentions an inventory, but ... it doesn't seem to be in the probate packets or in the courthouse records. Some of thi probate material has been filmed, so I ordered the appraiser & inventory book from the LDS archives. Inventories, bills of sale v A-B 1826-1847 -- film no. 894946 Film of inventories end on or about p 245, in 1834, with William Neil's estate (or possibly the previous one). Then they resume in 1842 with John Shoff's estate on p 448, with the ubiquitous Thomas Peacock signing and witnessing everything. That's a gap of _200_ pages and _8_ years -- with what what I'm looking for square in the middle :^) The filming was done about 1971 I think, and the index filmed in the back of the book also seems to omit these pages (that is, it doesn't seem to index anything in the missing pages). I'm not sure when this index would've been done, but it's probably contemporary from the look of the writing. I haven't looked thru this exhaustively tho. What's the scoop?

    11/12/2000 03:19:19