You're welcome, Ellen, and thank you for your reply.
When I began work on our family tree in 1989, I never would have believed I would become so fond of wills and of probate records - administration granted, guardianship granted, executors, inventory of the estate, all together has provided more evidence of our family than any other single source. I am especially fond of the early colonial wills, with their provisions for distributing farm land and the home farm connected to which child takes care of the parents in their elderly years.
