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Sorted listing of Berks County, PA Estate records at Ancestry.com

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Administration

I think it's easier to just use the indices in each volume instead of decoding the goofy index above, but you'll need to use that for > 1829.

Estate Files

Orphan's Court

First go to OC Proceedings Index, then to the OC Proceedings. There is information in here that is not in the estate records above and also for cases where there is no estate file.

Misc

Wills

Unrecorded Wills refers to wills that were originally in German and not entered into the will books at the time.

Berks Tax Lists

Eldred overlay Eldred overlay
approx Berks 1781
Berks

Combined tax lists for the townships that were interesting to me (if you want to do other areas/times, send me the links and I'll add them!). Beware that the indices seem to have occasional mistakes (I saw some) and there may be some typos below, so double check everything.