{"id":465,"date":"2009-10-11T22:03:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-12T05:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ncgenweb.us\/martin\/?p=465"},"modified":"2009-10-11T22:03:29","modified_gmt":"2009-10-12T05:03:29","slug":"looking-for-a-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/looking-for-a-will\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Will?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a new page to the site, one that will focus on probate records. \u00a0Probate records are court records created after an individual\u2019s death that relate to a court\u2019s decisions regarding the distribution of his estate to his heirs or creditors and the care of his dependents. \u00a0You can find can access the page <a href=\"\/martin\/probate-records\">directly<\/a> or by choosing it from the drop down menu on the right side of the screen under &#8220;Records\/Data.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The impetus for creating this page was an index I photocopied several months ago while visiting the Tennessee State Library &amp; Archives. \u00a0 This book, <em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Martin County, North Carolina : abstracts of will books 1 &amp; 2: 1774-1868<\/span><\/em>, was published by the Martin County Genealogical Society in 1990. \u00a0 \u00a0My photocopy was not the best; some of the page edges are cut off, but I hope to get a better version on my next visit.<\/p>\n<p>If you find someone of interest mentioned in the book, it is available for sale from the county Historical Society (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitmartincounty.com\/Resources\/Resources.asp\" target=\"_blank\">details here<\/a>), or you can search to see if any \u00a0libraries near you own it by visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/search?q=au:Martin+County+Historical+Society+(N.C.).+Library+Committee.&amp;qt=hot_author\" target=\"_blank\">WorldCat.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The index is below: \u00a0Click on &#8220;FULLSCREEN&#8221; to enlarge it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve added a new page to the site, one that will focus on probate records. \u00a0Probate records are court records created after an individual\u2019s death that relate to a court\u2019s decisions regarding the distribution of his estate to his heirs or creditors and the care of his dependents. \u00a0You can find can access the page &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/looking-for-a-will\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Looking for a Will?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5509],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncgenweb.us\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}