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England

 * England, Bedfordshire, Church Records, 1538-1983
 * England, Berkshire, Bishop's Transcripts

France

 * France, Saône-et-Loire, Census, 1896

Germany

 * Germany, Baden, Freiburg im Breisgau (Archdiocese), Catholic Church Records, 1800-1930
 * Germany, Bavaria, Augsburg Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1800-1930
 * Germany, Prussia, Saxony, Census Lists, 1770-1934
 * Germany, Rhineland, Trier Diocese, Catholic Church Records, 1800-1930

Australia

 * Australia, South Australia, Census, 1841
 * Australia, South Australia, Civil Registration, 1802-1959
 * Australia, South Australia, Court Records, 1837-1982

Cook Islands

 * Cook Islands, Miscellaneous Records

French Polynesia

 * French Polynesia, Civil Registration

New Zealand

 * New Zealand, Cemetery Transcriptions, 1840-1981

Papua New Guinea

 * Papua New Guinea, Vital Records

Slovak Church Books
Entries are usually arranged in chronological order and, after 1784, in a columnar format. Sometimes, baptisms, marriages, and burials are kept all for all villages in a parish each year. Other times, each village has its own section of baptisms, marriages, and burials, listed chronologically. Some records are on preprinted forms; most include indexes. The Family History Library has copies of almost all birth, marriage, and death registers for the following religions: Catholic (the majority religion), Evangelical Lutheran, Reformed, Jewish, Greek Catholic, and Orthodox. Filming of the records was done from 1991-2009. The images in this collection are from those films.

Torun, Poland
An interesting fact about Torun: Nicolaus Copernicus, who was a Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe was born in the city of Torun (Thorn) in 1473.

UK Wills
Although any person, regardless of class or wealth, may have left a will or might be mentioned in one, wills were made primarily by the middle and upper classes, mostly by males with property. Before 1882, a wife who died before her husband could not make a will except with her husband’s consent or under a marriage settlement created before her marriage. A widow, however, could make a will.

Before 1750, heirs often did not prove wills to avoid court costs. The will was often kept in case someone later objected to the distribution of the property. As a result, sometimes wills were probated decades after the testator’s death. Some archives have collections of unproved wills. Others may be among family papers.

Until 1833 real property could be entailed. This specified how property would be inherited in the future. An entail prevented subsequent inheritors from bequeathing the property to anyone except the heirs specified in the entail.

The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth holds the original wills proved in Welsh ecclesiastical courts and has published images online.

Probate records are used to legally dispose of a person’s estate after his or her death. The probate process transfers the legal responsibility for payment of taxes, care and custody of dependent family members, liquidation of debts, and transfer of property title. The transfer is to an executor or executrix if the deceased had made a will, to an administrator or administratrix if the deceased had not made a will, or to a guardian or conservator if the deceased had heirs under the age of twenty-one or if heirs were incompetent due to disease or disability.

FamilySearch

 * Introduction to the FamilySearch Catalog

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