On occasion, the guardianship is a limited one, created so that the guardian may sue for personal injury or liability damages on behalf of a minor. Entries for a typical case include signed statements of the natural parents, the adoptive parents, the child if of sufficient age, and the witnesses. The statements may record some family particulars including date of birth of child, legitimacy, abandonment if that is the case, death of one of the parents, or other factors in the adoption. The judge's decree of adoption is also recorded, noting the child's new name, which might be a change of given name as well as surname. After the 1940s, when social service agencies became the predominant mediators of adoptions, statements are no longer included in the court's records.
Information generally becomes less detailed.
A brief summary is made based on the judge's review of the service agency's reports, and an order of adoption in light of the facts is made. Around the turn of the century, corporate dissolution records appear intermittently in the books, with the company as the deceased. Corporate dissolution was part of the district court's regular function, but is more frequently covered in the civil and criminal case division of the district court. Voluntary dissolution called for evidence of stockholder approval and published notice before the judge issued a decree to dissolve the company and distribute property. Name changes occur periodically throughout the record books as orders for change of name.