No, only those children who stood to inherit money or property.  They are great records though.  I had ancestors who were to inherit from their grandmother even though their mother was dead but the father survived.  Great genealogical information there !  Children over 14 were allowed to select their own guardian. Alice ----- Original Message ----- From: "keith nuttle" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected] Sent: Monday, November 15, 2010 10:06:02 PM Subject: Re: [PABERKS] Orphans Court Information Would all children less that 9 living in Philadelphia have gone through the Orphans court? Would the Orphan Court Records list both of their parents even if one   parent died a couple of years before the other? Would it list any information about the guardian, his parents, wife, etc. If so this will solve a big problem On 11/15/2010 9:01 PM, [email protected] wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Author: jrbfamily > Surnames: > Classification: queries > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks/10232.1.1.1/mb.ashx > > Message Board Post: > > The Orphans Court was the court that registered wills and oversaw the distribution of estates, as well as ensured that minors and young women had a guardian to look after their interests. I don't know when those records started being kept -- the ones in Lancaster Co seem to be available at least from 1742, in Northampton Co at least from 1752 -- before then perhaps the records were just in the Miscellaneous books. Books of abstracts for Lancaster and Northampton have been done and can be purchased, but I don't know about Berks; you'd think someone might have done it for Berks. Ask at Berks Co Hist Socy library? > > Important Note: > The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board. > > > >   ==== PABERKS Mailing List ==== >         [email protected] > > To contact the List Administrator: > Rick Berkheiser, [email protected] > > To visit the Berks Message Board: > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks > > To visit the Berks County, PA website: > http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ > Hosted by Nancy Freehafer > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >  ==== PABERKS Mailing List ====        [email protected] To contact the List Administrator: Rick Berkheiser, [email protected] To visit the Berks Message Board: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.berks To visit the Berks County, PA website: http://www.pa-roots.com/~berks/ Hosted by Nancy Freehafer ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message