Copyright 1999 - 2007 by Rebecca Osborne,
Ph.D. All rights reserved.
The
Index to Texas
Probate Records
A W.P.A. project of the 1940's generated indexes for
probate records housed in at least 30 Texas
counties. This project brings 11 of those counties together into a
single alphabetical listing. Over 26,000 probate cases are represented in
this data. Update - As of January 2003, organization is underway
to add additional counties to this database.
Almost 300 students at McNeilHigh School have helped with data
entry and proofreading for information that appears on my web page.
Please take a moment to send
a note to the McNeilHigh School students
who have contributed to this Probate Index project. Your email
messages help students understand the importance and impact of community
service work.
All counties are alphabetized into one list. The counties include:
Brown, Bowie, Camp, Chambers, Delta, Guadalupe, Newton, Robertson, Rusk,
San Saba and Williamson. Should you find a name that is of interest to
you, please contact the Court House in that particular county for more information. Addresses and phone numbers are listed at
the bottom of this web page. Unfortunately, due
to my time constraints, I am unable to answer specific requests for
information.
While the surnames are listed alphabetically, first names do not appear
alphabetically when "Mrs." is listed before the first name. A
women's name that includes "Mrs." in this index
appears under the "M" section of each surname and not under
the woman's first name. Also, first names do not always appear in
alphabetical order because commas, that follow the surname, were occasionally
omitted during data entry.
To ensure the high degree of accuracy I like to associate with the data on my
web pages, these records still need to be proofed a second time. However,
given that an overwhelming majority of the data is accurate, I believe it is in
the best interest of research to put these records online at this time, prior
to a second proofreading.