This is a list of Washington DC Probate Records online and may include estates, wills, guardianships, lists of assets, death dates, names of heirs and other family members, and more. Probate records are one place to search for substitute death records because they record how a deceased person’s estate was handled and will usually include a death date or possibly a death certificate.
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Washington DC Probate Records online
District of Columbia – Probate Records – District of Columbia, Freedmen’s Bureau Field Office Records, 1863-1872, index & images, at FS
District of Columbia – Probate Records – Genealogical collection, ca. 1700-1900 [Daughters of the American Revolution (District of Columbia)], at FS
District of Columbia – Probate Records – Probate records (District of Columbia), 1801-1930, at FS
District of Columbia – Probate Records – Will books, 1800-1878; index to wills, 1800-1951, at FS
District of Columbia – Probate Records – Wills, Book IV, dated 1799 to 1837 : as recorded in the Office of Register of Wills, Municipal Court, Washington, D.C., at FS
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