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Re: PROBATE RECORDS

ALL RESIDENTS OF WAPELLO COUNTY, PAST AND PRESENT

Posted By: Linda Shogren (email)
Date: 10/10/2004 at 12:39:52

In Response To: Re: PROBATE RECORDS (Dean A. Glenn)

Thanks for your input, Dean. While I'm completely unsure of the legal issues involved, there certainly seems to be a moral issue here about those records being handled in the best public interest. I personally do not feel that the interests of those involved are being served -- the deceased whose records those are and their descendants, not to mention the current owners of any properties involved.

And EYE too am exremely curious as to why we have heard nothing here from the Wapello County Genealogy Society OR the W.C. Historical Society. Surely if there were some simple explanation, someone in a position to know what's going on would speak up to reassure everyone. ???? Sure would be nice, eh??? :) This is an EASY and FREE way to communicate with the Wapello County research community, which those entities have a SELF-STATED purpose to serve.

Oh....and this just HAS to involve more than the "100 records" that someone mentioned, given the size of the old, handwritten index I viewed in Ottumwa, and the number of probates likely to have occured between the early 1850s and 1926.

Continuing to follow this issue...
Linda Shogren :)

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