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Offline Pollynation

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California Wills
« on: Sunday 24 September 17 17:14 BST (UK) »
I'm looking for a will of a person who died 1951 in California. At the minute I don't know where she died or how to look for the will.

Does anybody know how/where to find the information? Thanks in advance.
Pauline
Atkinson/Mountney/Gardner/Mellor/Finch/Higham-Lancashire
Cooper/Price-Shropshire
Lund/Foster/Wilkinson/Crawforth-Yorkshire
Calvert-Durham


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Re: California Wills
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 24 September 17 17:52 BST (UK) »
Step one:  find the date and place of death [which may or may not be the place where the will was probated].
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2015582?collectionNameFilter=false

Step two:  good luck
https://legalbeagle.com/8301651-search-wills-california.html
Wiltshire:  Banks, Taylor
Somerset:  Duddridge, Richards, Barnard, Pillinger
Gloucestershire:  Barnard, Marsh, Crossman
Bristol:  Banks, Duddridge, Barnard
Down:  Ennis, McGee
Wicklow:  Chapman, Pepper
Wigtownshire:  Logan, Conning
Wisconsin:  Ennis, Chapman, Logan, Ware
Maine:  Ware, Mitchell, Tarr, Davis

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Re: California Wills
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 24 September 17 18:05 BST (UK) »
Thank you,

I now know Adeline Wright Kynaston died 14/3/1951 and was buried in Glendale Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Los Angeles.

The link you provided says that county do not have any records online, so I will have to email them and see how to get a copy of the will. I know the Kynaston family left a large size will which had to be shared by various relatives in the UK.

Thanks for your help, best wishes
Pauline
Atkinson/Mountney/Gardner/Mellor/Finch/Higham-Lancashire
Cooper/Price-Shropshire
Lund/Foster/Wilkinson/Crawforth-Yorkshire
Calvert-Durham


Whoever said seek and ye shall find was NOT a genealogist.