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Record Group Number: 800000
Series/Collection Number: .L 218
Creator: Florida. Circuit Court (3rd Circuit : Taylor County)
Title, Dates: Probate records, 1870-1939.
Amount: 4.00 microfilm reel 35 mm.
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Organization/Arrangement: Chronological.
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Biographical/Historical:     Taylor County was created by an act of the Legislature of Florida on December 23, 1856 (Chap. 806, Laws).  It was formed from the southwestern portion of Madison County.  The Clerk of the Circuit Court in each county serves as the official custodian of deed, marriage, and probate records.
Summary:     This series consist of a microfilm copy of the probate records for Taylor County, Florida from 1870 to 1938.  The series contains administrators' letter and bond book (1870, 1877-1888), administrator records (1908-1939), letters of testamentary (1887-1903), records of letters testimentary (1909-1948) and guardian records (1888-1947).
    The records are scattered, and there are gaps for many years. Some of the books are not indexed.
    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, Taylor County.  Office of the Clerk.  Perry, Florida.
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Subject Access Fields: Probate records Florida --Taylor County
Probate records. aat
Estate inventories. aat
Taylor County (Fla.)
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