Forsyth County was created December 3, 1832 from Cherokee County; the county seat is Cumming, Georgia. Forsyth County will records are extant from 1833. The General index to Forsyth County estates only begins in 1969 and the indexes in the original individual books are, as usual, incomplete and faulty This is an index to all 703 wills recorded in Forsyth County record books from 1833 to 1973 as follows:
Georgia Archives Microfilm Library (#drawer-box)
- “MER” “Miscellaneous Estate Records” books A & B contain wills, guardian bonds, inventories & appraisements, sales & letters
- #172-37) “MER/A”, 1833-1844 (wills found & listed)
- #172-37) “MER/B”, 1844-1848 (wills found & listed)
- “MR” “Miscellaneous Records” books C, D, E & F contain wills, guardian bonds, inventories & appraisements, sales & letters
- #172-42) “MR/C”, 1848-1852 (wills found & listed)
- #172-32) “MR/D”. 1852-1854 (wills found & listed; note: this book in Georgia Archives card file as Ordinary Minutes Book D)
- #172-42) “MR/E”, 1854-1855 (wills found & listed)
- #172-43) “MR/F”, 1855-1858 (wills found & listed)
- WILLS
- #172-38) “Will/A”, 1856-1892 (wills found & listed)
- #172-38) “Will/B”, 1892-1939 (wills found & listed)
- Forsyth Co. Probate Office) “Will/C”, 1938-1973, pp. 1-480.
NOTES
The date shown in (parenthesis) after the name is the year the will was
probated and/or recorded. A date in [brackets] indicates an undated
will and the year in brackets was estimated from surrounding documents.
A date followed by a small case “d” indicates a will that has no date of
probate or recording and the “d” indicates the date the will was written.
View the Forsyth County, Georgia, Will Index.
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