Hi Jack, I didn't know anything but went to the county courthouse in the town (my home town ) where my Great Grandfather died in 1932 and they showed me how to use the indices and told me to look for a Final Decree (1934) . (They will do it for you and it only cost a few dollars more for the look up and copying etc). I had many records of all types to pull, marriage, deeds, warrenties, land patent info etc.... so they were nice enough to teach me how to search for anything I wanted and things that I didn't know existed uses the indices and old tome at that courthouse nothing was microfilmed etc. It was a gold mine! And I only paid for copying cost $1.00 a sheet but was priceless. So, look for a final decree it was a gold mine of genalogical informtion , mortgate papers w/ former wives, heirs, present wives, grandchildren that we didn't know existed who inherited and possibly should not have be named as heirsl ( we thought my mom was the only existing grandchild at that time & she was not named as an heir) ! And son in law's administrating and who was assigned and vested with what in the end! Judith
Good morning Judith, Thank you so very much for your enlightening answer to my query. I will contact the court house and see if I can find an answer to my problem. Thanks again, Jack -----Original Message----- From: REVJUDITHYOUNG@aol.com [mailto:REVJUDITHYOUNG@aol.com] Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 11:53 AM To: OKGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [OKGEN ] Re: OKGEN-D Digest V05 #95 MAYBE OFF TOPIC BUT! Hi Jack, I didn't know anything but went to the county courthouse in the town (my home town ) where my Great Grandfather died in 1932 and they showed me how to use the indices and told me to look for a Final Decree (1934) . (They will do it for you and it only cost a few dollars more for the look up and copying etc). I had many records of all types to pull, marriage, deeds, warrenties, land patent info etc.... so they were nice enough to teach me how to search for anything I wanted and things that I didn't know existed uses the indices and old tome at that courthouse nothing was microfilmed etc. It was a gold mine! And I only paid for copying cost $1.00 a sheet but was priceless. So, look for a final decree it was a gold mine of genalogical informtion , mortgate papers w/ former wives, heirs, present wives, grandchildren that we didn't know existed who inherited and possibly should not have be named as heirsl ( we thought my mom was the only existing grandchild at that time & she was not named as an heir) ! And son in law's administrating and who was assigned and vested with what in the end! Judith ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== Online sources for locating a Town or County http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/locatetown.htm