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 ...

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 ...

In 2002, she was in search of some old probate records and couldn't find them. She went through the available microfilm at Willard Library. The records weren't there. "They only had certain ones ...

A three-year digitization project by the genealogical research firm has made wills and probate records of about 100 million Americans from the Colonial era to the beginning of the 21st century ...

A probate file is thus a primary source of information, which means it contains records that are usually reliable. Records in a probate file are kept in a packet.

But probate records concerning the estate of John C. Swanberg, a retired Catholic school teacher and Champaign resident who died at 79 on June 11, 2014, at the county nursing home, speak volumes.