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Subject: [GAFORSYT] Henderson County NC Estate Records 1838 - 1900
Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2002 19:00:02 EDT

I am posting the following for the author of a new genealogy book.

These are records that have not been available before now. Henderson Co.,NC
was formed in 1838, and in 1861 Transylvania Co., NC was created out of
Henderson Co., NC. So abstract for Henderson Co., NC from 1838 to 1900, and
Transylvania Co., NC from 1838 to 1861 when Transylvania Co., was still part
of Henderson Co., NC

If you will email her names you are looking for she will tell you if the book
will be beneficial to you.

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These valuable records have been in Raleigh NC since 1960 and never
available in any printed form before now. Estate records, or probate
records, were generated when a person died without a will. The court
settled the deceased estate and in doing so generated a tremendous
amount of documentation. These documents usually listed the
widow/widower, heirs (children, grandchildren, brothers and sisters),
sometimes where the heirs lived, names of slaves who were sold to settle
the estate, dower issues, inventories and accounts. In fact, estate
records give much more information than a will.

I have published an abstract of these records. There are over 750 su r
names listed and over 5000 names. The amount of information is truly
phenomenal! Click on the URL below to review the book and for ordering.

If you will email the name you are looking for I will tell you if the
book will be beneficial to you.

<A HREF="http://ksummers55.home.mchsi.com/">http://ksummers55.home.mchsi.com/</A>;

Kathleen Summers

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