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New Orleans Public Library City Archives
Louisiana. Court of Probates (Orleans Parish)
The Court of Probates was established in 1804 to provide for the judicial supervision of
the disposition of the estates left by deceased property
owners in Orleans Parish. The records of the court are divided into
several series, including wills, successions, estate inventories, and suits brought against estates.
The General Index of All Successions, Opened in the Parish of Orleans, from the year 1805, to the year
1846, compiled by P. M. Bertin and published in 1849, provides access to the wills, successions, and
estate inventories filed in the Court of Probates. The records in these series were not assigned docket
numbers, but were arranged in an
alphabetical/chronological scheme (in the case of successions and inventories) or chronologically (in the
case of wills).
Suits brought by or against executors, administrators, tutors, curators or heirs of
estates, however, were assigned docket numbers. Unfortunately, indexing to this series was not
extant when the records were transferred to the City Archives; as a result, the numbered suit records in the
Probate Court were largely inaccessible to
researchers.
To remedy this situation, the index presented here has been created from microfilm of the numbered series
of suits filed
against estates.
[A] [B] [C] [D] [E] [F] [G] [H] [I] [J] [K] [L] [M] [N] [O] [ [P] [Q] [R] [ [S] [T] [U] [V] [W] [XYZ] [Miscellaneous]
P.M. Bertin's General Index of All Successions, Opened in
the Parish of Orleans, From the Year 1805, to the Year 1846,
which indexes successions (and related matters), wills, and estate inventories filed in the Court of Probates,
Link here for the Index of All Successions.
Return to Orleans Parish Courts Finding Aids
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