General Arrangement of Finding Aid Arrangement is alphabetical by county. The cities of Fredericksburg, Norfolk, Petersburg and Richmond follow the list of counties. Within each county or city arrangement is alphabetical by the name of the deceased. The cards also indicate the microfilm reel number for each document. All transactions related to an estate are indexed on the same card.
Arrangement is alphabetical by name.
Cards contain the name, the county, the type of document, the date the document was recorded, and references to the source where the will or other document may be found. Format of Collection Microfilm and original documents. The documents indexed by this file are not located in county records and include wills from a number of counties where the official records no longer exist. The sources for these wills are listed in a file designated Sources, Other which precedes the index to Other Wills. The index to Lost Wills also covers counties where the official records no longer exist but for the period beginning in 1801.