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What are Black Box Documents?
Explained by
Vera Meek Wimberly
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The Black Box Documents are those original
documents which were created in probating a will or settling an estate. A
typical estate settlement may include Application for Probate of Will, a
Will, Application for Letters of Administration or Guardianship,
Administrators Bonds and Guardianship Bonds. Inventories, Citations, Requests
for Partition, and the invoices, vouchers, receipts, notes, etc. presented in
each case.
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These documents were placed in
individual envelopes or packets and numbered. The number corresponding to the
probate case. The packets are then filed in metal boxes which are dark in
color - therefore, the name Black Boxes. These boxes are housed in the
Montgomery County Courthouse.
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A book entitled "Death Dates &
Marriages Inferred in Montgomery County, Texas Black Box Documents 1838 – 1900"
was comprised of the death dates as recorded and the marriage records inferred
in the "black boxes" documents. These records were taken from the first five
volumes of the Black Box Probate Records as published by Montgomery County
Genealogy & Historical Society, Inc.
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Click for a
lookup in
"Death Dates & Marriages Inferred in
Montgomery County, Texas Black Box Documents 1838 – 1900".
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