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Alabama Probate records include a variety of documents created to support court proceedings in the settlement of an individuals' estates. The number and type of probate records created may vary over the course of time in different jurisdictions and owing to the amount of real and personal property involved. The various documents generated in the probate process are rarely filed together......
The workplace of the probate judge is the county office where the most significant genealogical records are created and maintained in Alabama. A variety of records are housed in this workplace.
These records may be labeled wills, estates, inventories, administrations or guardian's bonds, and orphan's court records.
Within each category there may or may not be separate volumes labeled "record" or "minutes." The "record" volumes contain relatively full accounts of probate proceedings, while the "minutes" volumes usually contain only brief abstracts of the proceedings. Early adoption records and records for the binding-out of poor orphans are recorded here. Until the 1900s adoption records weren't filed individually. Record books and files created especially for adoption proceedings are now closed to the public legally.
Occasionally bastardy cases and naturalization records are here. In all cases these records are merely copies of the original and contain only such information as the clerk thought legally important. More significant than the clerk's ledger, the "loose papers" contain the documents submitted to prove a will, like the petition to probate, which listed all heirs of the deceased.
Generally, these files are not housed in the record room. The researcher should request these files from the probate clerk. The office of the probate judge in Alabama also recorded other documents intermittently in probate, deed, or commissioner's court records. Particularly useful are proofs of freedom filed by free blacks or natives (often with white deponents), indenture papers, contracts for hiring military substitutes during the Civil War, and lists of slaves brought into the state or loaned to the Confederacy.
Probate Records are found in the County Clerk of Probate Office. See Probate Offices below for Links.
Alabama Probate County Offices
| Autauga County Clerk of Probate Court Baldwin County Clerk of Probate Court Barbour County Clerk of Probate Court Bibb County Clerk of Probate Court Blount County Clerk of Probate Court Bullock County Clerk of Probate Court Butler County Clerk of Probate Court Calhoun County Clerk of Probate Court Chambers County Clerk of Probate Court Cherokee County Clerk of Probate Court Chilton County Clerk of Probate Court Choctaw County Clerk of Probate Court Clarke County Clerk of Probate Court Clay County Clerk of Probate Court Cleburne County Clerk of Probate Court Coffee County Clerk of Probate Court Colbert County Clerk of Probate Court Conecuh County Clerk of Probate Court Coosa County Clerk of Probate Court Covington County Clerk of Probate Court Crenshaw County Clerk of Probate Court Cullman County Clerk of Probate Court Dale County Clerk of Probate Court Dallas County Clerk of Probate Court DeKalb County Clerk of Probate Court Elmore County Clerk of Probate Court Escambia County Clerk of Probate Court Etowah County Clerk of Probate Court Franklin County Clerk of Probate Court Geneva County Clerk of Probate Court Greene County Clerk of Probate Court Hale County Clerk of Probate Court |
Henry County Clerk of Probate Court Jackson County Clerk of Probate Court Jefferson County Clerk of Probate Court Lamar County Clerk of Probate Court Lauderdale County Clerk of Probate Court Lawrence County Clerk of Probate Court Lee County Clerk of Probate Court Limestone County Clerk of Probate Court Lowndes County Clerk of Probate Court Macon County Clerk of Probate Court Madison County Clerk of Probate Court Marengo County Clerk of Probate Court Marion County Clerk of Probate Court Marshall County Clerk of Probate Court Mobile County Clerk of Probate Court Monroe County Clerk of Probate Court Montgomery County Clerk of Probate Court Morgan County Clerk of Probate Court Perry County Clerk of Probate Court Pickens County Clerk of Probate Court Pike County Clerk of Probate Court Randolph County Clerk of Probate Court Russell County Clerk of Probate Court Shelby County Clerk of Probate Court St. Clair County Clerk of Probate Court Sumter County Clerk of Probate Court Talladega County Clerk of Probate Court Tallapoosa County Clerk of Probate Court Tuscaloosa County Clerk of Probate Court Walker County Clerk of Probate Court Washington County Clerk of Probate Court Wilcox County Clerk of Probate Court |
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