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? If you ...

When researching your family history, do not narrow your search to only a male or female member of the family. With that approach, you might overlook helpful documents. Make a list of known brothers, ...

Every Tuesday morning, Maureen Vire heads faithfully to Calhoun County Probate Court. She always has a stack of records waiting for her. Vire carefully opens the paper records and scans them into a ...

To a genealogist, probate is a beautiful thing. Merriam-Webster defines probate as follows: a) the action or process of proving before a competent judicial authority that a document offered for ...

For the last four decades the Library-Archives Division of the Wisconsin Historical Society has been working on collecting, processing, and scanning probate records from across Wisconsin for the ...