Court probate records are public records of administering the estate of a deceased person. Probate public records are usually managed and governed by the court.

Probate records can be a good tool to find out more about someone or simply to learn extra information about your family. Probate court records can be accessed through courts or online through a specialized public record database.

Probation records - search tips and advice?

As mentioned above, the best way to get probation records is via an online public record database. The search is quite simple - most web sites will require just the name of the person whose records you need to find.

What you must have in mind when looking for probate records online is that each probate may take up to one year to settle so the information obtained in the meanwhile may not be full. Also in some cases there the probate can be avoided - for example when there is a beneficiary set in an insurance policy or other , if a POD is set up and so on. In cases like this you may need to find other ways to get more information about how the estate of a deceased person has been distributed.