In some cases the will and other original probate material may be kept in a separate file. The following are some places to obtain copies of ancestral signatures. Please do not consider this list to be comprehensive. A Guidebook of American Genealogy , edited by Loretto Szucs and Sandra Luebking. If your ancestor received a military pension or a widow's pension, records of this pension might contain a signature of the pensioner.
Marriage records vary greatly from state to state and from one time period to another.
However, your ancestors' marriage record might contain the signatures of the bride and groom. If there are consent bonds, the signatures of the fathers may be contained in the file. If one of the parties was underage, there might be a letter of consent. Unfortunately, in many cases, there will only be a note indicating parental consent that does not even name the parents. Later marriages may include signatures of witnesses who may be siblings of the bride or groom.