Sonoma County Probate Court records, 1854-1952

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Summary

Creators:
California. Probate Court (Sonoma County)
Abstract:
This collection contains records of the Probate Court concerning wills and other matters of probate. Records include index to surety bonds, bond on sale of real estate, bond of guardian upon qualifying, bond of administrator and executor.
Extent:
47 volumes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Sonoma County Probate Court records, 1854-1952. SCG.00070, Sonoma County Archives, Sonoma County Library, Rohnert Park, California.

Background

Scope and content:

Official records of the Sonoma County Probate Court.

Arrangement of the collection

Organized into two series and eighteen subseries:

  1. Probate Court records, 1854-1979
    • 1.01. General index to bonds, 1912-1921
    • 1.00. Surety bonds, 1917-1921
    • 1.03. Record of wills, 1854-1936
    • 1.04. Letters of guardianship, 1870-1884
    • 1.05. Minutes of the Probate Court, 1854-1857
    • 1.06. Miscellaneous bonds, 1901-1919
    • 1.07. Probate Court calendar, 1862-1880
    • 1.08. Public Administrator's register, 1924-1925
    • 1.09. Letters of administration and bonds, 1861-1952
    • 1.10. Collateral inheritance tax record, 1905-1935
    • 1.11. Bond of sale of real estate, 1884-1921
    • 1.12. Letters testamentary, 1872-1884
    • 1.13. Probate Court index, 1857-1859
    • 1.14. Fee Book--County Court, 1857-1859
    • 1.15. Ledger, 1915-1923
    • 1.16. Letters, 1855-1860
    • 1.17. Index (to Wills Book B), 1857-1898
  2. Probate Court Department One records, 1904-1913
    • 2.01. Minutes of probate cases, 1904-1913

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: A Content Standard, Second Edition DACS

Access and use

Restrictions:

Materials stored offsite, but collection is open to research. In many cases, further details on individual volumes can be found by calling staff at the Sonoma County History and Genealogy Library. To view these materials, please call staff at 707 308-3212 to request they be brought from the Archives to the Library

Terms of access:

Collection does not circulate and may be photocopied or photographed by arrangement only.

Property rights reside with the Sonoma County Library. The Sonoma County Library has made this collection available and believes that the collection is in the Public Domain under the laws of the United States, but a determination was not made as to its copyright status under the copyright laws of other countries. The Collection may not be in the Public Domain under the laws of other countries. Preferred credit line is: Courtesy, the Sonoma County Library. Please see additional reproduction and reuse information at https://sonomalibrary.org/locations/sonoma-county-history-and-genealogy-library/order-photo

Preferred citation:

Sonoma County Probate Court records, 1854-1952. SCG.00070, Sonoma County Archives, Sonoma County Library, Rohnert Park, California.

Location of this collection:
6135 State Farm Drive
Rohnert Park, CA 94928, US
Contact:
(707) 545-0831
digital@sonomalibrary.org
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