Probate Court Year’s Support
Inventory and Appraisement Book Records
Index
The Richmond County Probate Courthouse records include “Year’s Support Inventory and Appraisement Account Sales” books (I & A Books). These are books that report to the court the inventory and appraisement of the belongings of estates, guardians, and trust accounts prior to settlement.
These books are entitled, I & A Book-1785-1790, I & A Book-1795-1798, I & A Book A, I & A Book B, I & A Book C, etc, progressing through the alphabet to I & A Book Z. There are a total of 27 books that cover the period of time from 1785 to 1920. To make it easy to search for your ancestor, the AGS Historical Documents Committee has transcribed and indexed all 27 I & A books, providing a list of 18,000+ surnames. Every name abstracted from the first 2 books (1785-1798) is included in the index. In addition, all the surnames in Books A, B, & E were indexed. The remaining 22 books include only the names of the persons whose estates were being inventoried and appraised. Click here to see an example of the index.
The Index is available for use at the Adamson Library on the Family Room computer. Please contact us at [email protected] to schedule an appointment.
The Index is also available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site. Click here to join AGS This Index is NOT to be downloaded, copied or printed without prior written AGS approval. AGS Members: Click here to see the Index.
In addition, AGS is in the process of publishing this index in a book that should be available to purchase in by the end of 2023.
The Richmond County Probate Courthouse records include “Year’s Support Inventory and Appraisement Account Sales” books (I & A Books). These are books that report to the court the inventory and appraisement of the belongings of estates, guardians, and trust accounts prior to settlement.
These books are entitled, I & A Book-1785-1790, I & A Book-1795-1798, I & A Book A, I & A Book B, I & A Book C, etc, progressing through the alphabet to I & A Book Z. There are a total of 27 books that cover the period of time from 1785 to 1920. To make it easy to search for your ancestor, the AGS Historical Documents Committee has transcribed and indexed all 27 I & A books, providing a list of 18,000+ surnames. Every name abstracted from the first 2 books (1785-1798) is included in the index. In addition, all the surnames in Books A, B, & E were indexed. The remaining 22 books include only the names of the persons whose estates were being inventoried and appraised. Click here to see an example of the index.
The Index is available for use at the Adamson Library on the Family Room computer. Please contact us at [email protected] to schedule an appointment.
The Index is also available to current AGS members in the Members Area of this site. Click here to join AGS This Index is NOT to be downloaded, copied or printed without prior written AGS approval. AGS Members: Click here to see the Index.
In addition, AGS is in the process of publishing this index in a book that should be available to purchase in by the end of 2023.
Records
At AGS - All 27 Year’s Support I&A books described above can be viewed at the AGS Adamson Library; however, you will need to call to make a special appointment with the chairperson of the Historical Documents Committee to unlock the vault and show them to you. Copies of an individual page can be provided upon request. The cost is $1.00 for members/$5.00 for non-members per page handling fee plus shipping costs.
at Family Search - Microfilm images of many of the books are also available online at Family Search. They do not have images of books T through Z. However, their images are not searchable and require the use of the AGS index discussed above to be able to search the books.
At AGS - All 27 Year’s Support I&A books described above can be viewed at the AGS Adamson Library; however, you will need to call to make a special appointment with the chairperson of the Historical Documents Committee to unlock the vault and show them to you. Copies of an individual page can be provided upon request. The cost is $1.00 for members/$5.00 for non-members per page handling fee plus shipping costs.
at Family Search - Microfilm images of many of the books are also available online at Family Search. They do not have images of books T through Z. However, their images are not searchable and require the use of the AGS index discussed above to be able to search the books.