No Probate?

Michael John Neill offers tips for researchers who can find no probate record to assist in their research. It's an older article but he referred to it this week. It's certainly a situation many researchers face and is worth revisiting even if you read it several years ago. (By the way, browse around his current blog. He has all sorts of interesting census records of people who later became famous and some handwriting challenges for those who like to decipher old handwriting.)