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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 215
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit : Suwannee County)
Title, Dates: Probate records, 1860-1950.
Amount: 19.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: By record type.
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Biographical/Historical:     Suwannee County was created by an act of the Legislature of Florida on December 21, 1858 (Chap. 895, Laws).  It was created from a portion of Columbia County.  The Clerk of the Circuit Court in each county serves as the official custodian of deed, marriage, and probate records.
Summary:     This series consists of a microfilm copy of the probate records for Suwannee County, Florida from 1860 to 1950.  The series contains wills (1860-1946), settlement books (1860-1874), probate order books (1860-1902), probate files (no dates), administration records (1913-1930) and guardianship records (1913-1930).
    Probate is the transfer of property title and rights and of legal responsibility for payment of taxes or of 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.
Administration records concern people who died intestate--having no valid will and thus no provisions for their estate.  These records document the appointment by the court of an administrator for such an estate.
    The need for a guardian usually occurs when a decedent is survived by minor children who by law are not considered capable of managing their own life.  Thus the court appoints a guardian.  The guardianship records include letters of guardianship, orders appointing guardians, guardianship oaths and bonds, and annual returns.
Finding Aids: Microfilm listing available.
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Reproduction Note: Microfilm.
Location of Originals/Duplicates: Circuit Court, Third Judicial Circuit, Suwannee County.  Office of the Clerk.  Live Oak, Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Probate records Florida --Suwannee County
Probate records. aat
Wills. aat
Estate inventories. aat
Suwannee County (Fla.)
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