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Philadelphia Administration Files

Philadelphia Miscellaneous

Philadelphia Orphan's Court

A-J seems to be missing from the following index

These dockets have basic info and show the Volume Number and number for the year. These are then referenced in the papers in the next section.

These estate papers follow both the above indices as well as reference the OC Docket Volume and number for the year. These provide much more detail.

Philadelphia Partitions

Philadelphia Wills

For the earliest wills (< 1825), you will only find the abstracts from the Genealogy Society of Pennsylvania publications. See also similar will abstracts at US GenWeb (free) here.

These are the main will indices that I broke out.

Easiest is to use the index by-letter above for 1682-1900, although any index above will do. Note that will books start at 1838 on ancestry.com.