On Jan 13, 2008, at 9:25 PM, teresa anderson wrote: > The dispersals of the monies and goods is found in the Estate > Inventories. The old Widow's Inventories are also found in these > books. > The deceased assets, monies owed to the deceased, debts the estate > paid > and the division of the property and monies is found. Not all estate > settlements were recordered. > I don't remember separate books for Estate Inventories. The couple of estate inventories(dispersals of monies for debts owed and portion of estate obtained) that I looked at were in the Orphan's Court books (one was for 1871 and the other for 1875). Where are the estate inventory books? I'm assuming in the basement. > There are a couple hundred green metal boxes in the Register and > Recorder's vault. They are numbered. At some point, (when documents > started to be typed?) all the documents settling an Estate were > grouped > together in an heavy paper envelope which contains the Will, Estate > Inventory, any Orphan's Court Dockets, Bonds, any pertinent > information, > etc. I have not researched that I have used this source, but it is > there. I saw someone with one of the boxes opened and was shown what > it > as. This is information much later than what I have been researching. Sheesh, I didn't know these were available there. I've seen them at other courthouses, but not in Huntingdon. Do you ask for them upstairs? When you say that "this is information much later than what I have been researching" are you saying that those packets were only begun at a certain point in the county's history and not before? Patti