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	Record Group Number:	800000
	Series/Collection Number:	.L 82
	Creator:	Florida. Circuit Court (6th Circuit : Pasco County)
	Title, Dates:	Probate records, 1887-1967.
	Amount:	5.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
	Medium Included:	microfilm
	Organization/Arrangement:	By record type.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Pasco County was established in 1887 by an act of the State Legislature. It was formed from the southern portion of Hernando County. The Clerk of the Circuit Court in each county serves as the official custodian of deed, marriage, and probate records.
	Summary:	This collection consists of the probate records of Pasco County, Florida, from 1887 to 1967. The series includes probate record books (1928-1967); probate dockets (1940-1967); probate court minutes (1946-1961); petitions and orders (1887-1960); bond records (1887-1934); claims records on deceased estates (1928-1938); inventories and appraisements (1894-1928); records of probate letters (1887-1918); letters testamentary (1919-1961); records of minors' lands sold (1929-1936); miscellaneous probate records (1913-1936); and records of wills (1887-1932). Probate is the transfer of property title and rights and of legal responsibility for payment of taxes or custody from the deceased to another party, from a person judged incompetent or insane, or from a minor to an appointed guardian. Probate records document the administration and distribution of an individual's estate after death. This series contains a variety of probate records, including wills, which dispose of a person's property; petitions to the probate court; orders handed down by the court; estate inventories and property appraisals; letters appointing estate administrators and guardians; and the bonds of the guardians and administrators. The Probate Record books (1928-1967) contain all types of probate records with no apparent arrangement; the probate dockets serve as an index to those books. Most of the other volumes in the series contain an internal index.
	Finding Aids:	Microfilm list available (volumes deaccessioned 6/3/2005).
	Additional Physical Form:
	Reproduction Note:	Record of wills, volumes 1-3, on microfilm.
	Location of Originals/Duplicates:	Original record of wills, volumes 1-3 located at: Circuit Court, Sixth Judicial Circuit, Pasco County. Office of the Clerk. Dade City, Florida.
	Associated Materials:	Pioneer Pasco Historical Museum, Dade City, Florida.
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	General Note:	( Volumes deaccessioned - 06/03/2005 )
	Electronic Records Access:
	Subject Access Fields:	Legal instruments Florida --Pasco County Probate records Florida --Pasco County Court records Florida --Pasco County Insurance, Surety and fidelity Florida Guardianship Probate records. aat Estate inventories. aat Wills. aat Bonds (Legal records) aat Pasco County (Fla.)
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