At the risk of providing too much “inside baseball” with this column, I am pleased to inform my readers that the probate and family court’s records are now online. Who cares about his news? Iif you ...

When researching your family history, do not narrow your search to only a male or female member of the family. With that approach, you might overlook helpful documents. Make a list of known brothers, ...

Every Tuesday morning, Maureen Vire heads faithfully to Calhoun County Probate Court. She always has a stack of records waiting for her. Vire carefully opens the paper records and scans them into a ...

When planning for the transfer of assets after death, two terms come up often: probate and trust. Probate is the court-supervised process of validating a will, paying debts and distributing assets to ...

LANCASTER — Those needing to look up Fairfield County Juvenile/Probate Court records will eventually have an easier time doing so. The county has about 1.5 million probate records on microfiche. But ...