{"id":1185,"date":"2015-09-29T14:45:44","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2015-09-29T14:45:44","modified_gmt":"2015-09-29T14:45:44","slug":"minnesota-probate-records-dating-back-to-1801-hmmmmm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=1185","title":{"rendered":"Minnesota Probate Records Dating Back to 1801? Hmmmmm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ancestry-1801.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1186 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ancestry-1801-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"ancestry-1801\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ancestry-1801-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/ancestry-1801.jpg 463w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>According to the title at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em>, Minnesota has wills and probate records dating as early as 1801. Somehow I doubt it. I realize that catalogers sometime shave difficulties with materials, but it would seem that a good working start date for probate materials would be sometime close to the date of statehood.<\/p>\n<p>In reviewing the list of titles in the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=982\">probate database<\/a>&#8221; at <em>Ancestry.com<\/em>, it appears that many of them have &#8220;start dates&#8221; that seem a little early for the location. And even when the years covered seem reasonable for the state in question, read the inventory of what is available for your specific county of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Because I bet there aren&#8217;t many Minnesota counties that have probate records stretching back to 1801.<\/p>\n<p>Informed users are more effective users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the title at\u00a0Ancestry.com, Minnesota has wills and probate records dating as early as 1801. Somehow I doubt it. I realize that catalogers sometime shave difficulties with materials, but it would seem that a good working start date for probate materials would be sometime close to the date of statehood. In reviewing the list [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}