Probate Cases
1846 - Early 1900's
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Cases 1 - 3,100
1846 - Early 1900's
Dallas County Texas Index To Probate Cases 1846-1900
INTRODUCTION
When an estate was filed for probate, it was assigned a number, (This is also true of guardianship and lunacy cases). This number is found in all the Probate Books and on the original documents in the Probate Packets. In about 1935 all of the completed were assigned a NEW number and classified as 'disposed cases.' For this reason the number found in the records is different from the number that the cases are now filed under. To locate the original records, the NEW number must be used.
The numbers in this index are the NEW numbers that were assigned to the cases in the 1930's. These NEW numbers appear to have been assigned to these cases by ten year periods according to the time they were completed and all for that ten year period was put in somewhat alphabetical order and then the process started over for the next ten year period. This process was continued for all the completed cases to about the year 1935.
The probate cases of Dallas County, Texas also include guardianship cases and lunacy cases. Guardianship cases not only pertain to minor children, but to a person of any age who was able to competently handle his own affairs. Lunacy cases included not only those who were insane or mentally incompetent, but of advanced age who were unable to take care of their own affairs due to senility.
MICROFILM REEL CONTENTS
| CONTENTS | MICROFILM REEL NUMBER |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Instructions | 1 |
| Index to Disposed Cases | 1 |
| Index to Executors & Guardians | 1 |
| Cases 1 - 148 | 1 |
| Cases 149 - 279 | 2 |
| Cases 280 - 383 (part) | 3 |
| Cases 383 (part) - 659 | 4 |
| Cases 660 - 799 | 5 |
| Cases 800 - 925 | 6 |
| Cases 926 - 1094 | 7 |
| Cases 1095 - 1176 (part) | 8 |
| Cases 1176 (part) - 1284 | 9 |
| Cases 1284 - 1374 (part) | 10 |
| Cases 1374 (part) - 1475 | 11 |
| Cases 1476 - 1598 | 12 |
| Cases 1599 - 1694 | 13 |
| Cases 1695 - 1751 (part) | 14 |
| Cases 1751 (part) - 1810 (part) | 15 |
| Cases 1810 (part) - 1865 | 16 |
| Cases 1866 - 1919 (part) | 17 |
| Cases 1919 (part) - 2004 | 18 |
| Cases 2005 - 2067 (part) | 19 |
| Cases 2067 (part) - 2139 | 20 |
| Cases 2140 - 2241 | 21 |
| Cases 2242 - 2276 (part) | 22 |
| Cases 2276 (part) - 2329 | 23 |
| Cases 2330 - 2452 | 24 |
| Cases 2453 - 2508 (part) | 25 |
| Cases 2508 (part) - 2554 | 26 |
| Cases 2555 - 2640 | 27 |
| Cases 2641 - 2680 (part) | 28 |
| Cases 2680 (part) - 2780 | 29 |
| Cases 2781 - 2886 | 30 |
| Cases 2887 - 2975 | 31 |
| Cases 2976 - 3014 | 32 |
| Cases 3015 - 3055 | 33 |
| Cases 3056 - 3l00 | 34 |
| Misc. Cases | 35 |
Index symbols:
• - Original documents missing. Names obtained from original disposed case index book.
•• - Microfilmed as missing, however cases were located and were filmed following cases 3,100.
Number or letter preceding case number - indicates a case number was assigned to more than one individual and a letter or number was added to differentiate the different cases.
