This week's Rootsweb Review starts out with this very good guide for genealogy research, that I wished to share it with you all. . RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine 16 February 2005, Vol. 8, No. 7, Circulation: 811,065+ (c) 1998-2005 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ http://rwguide.rootsweb.com/ Rootsweb Guide -- Index by Subject and Numerical Index ti Guides. ************** Examples: http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/lesson30.htm Norh Carolina State File Availability of Wills by County http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nc/ncstate/wills/willstat.txt NORTH CAROLINA STATE FILE - WILLS - Availability of Wills By Co 046--Guilford County Formed 1771 from Rowan and Orange counties. Recording of wills began with August term, 1816, of the county court. Will Book A, which was started in 1816, was subsequently renumbered as Will Book B. and wills proved before 1816 were entered in a new Will Book A. There are two boxes of Guilford County wills in the State Archives that are identified as "unrecorded;" some of those probated before 1868 were recorded in county court minute dockets rather than in will books. In several instances, the authenticity of the so-called unrecorded wills was rejected by decision of a jury. According to testimony before the Salisbury District Court in 1789, the records of the Guilford County court were destroyed by the British army at the Battle of Guilford Court House in 1781; there does not, however, appear to have been any significant loss of original wills probated prior to that date. Enjoy! Violet Moore Guy 02/17/2005