Middlesex County, Massachusetts Probate Index, 1871-1909 (Part A-K)

Description (from source site)
When the people of Middlesex County needed to file official documents, they traveled to the county courthouse where officials recorded and notarized their paperwork. This database indexes names of persons in conjunction with the various types of probate records they filed. These records include wills, administrations of wills, change of name documents, commitment papers, sales of estates, permissions to marry, guardianships, adoptions, and partitions. These records are from 1871-1909, however, there is one record for 1870 for a Jessamine Brooks residing in Malden, MA. It is interesting to note that Louisa May Alcott, the author of "Little Women" appears in this database.

Sources Flint, James, comp. Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Probate Index, 1871 - 1909. [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000-. Original data: Middlesex County, MA Probate Index, Vol.1&2, 1870-1909. MA: 1912.

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