Wills can give you a wide range of information regarding your property. Some examples of information you may find includes:
Probate documents typically contain a list of items and their value that belonged to the property owner at the time of death. Many historic probate document contain exhaustive lists of items contained in each room of an estate. These types of documents give us good insight on the daily lives of the occupants on things such as social status and the use of each room.
In Maryland the archive of wills and probate documents are maintained at the country level. In doing a quick search on-line at The Maryland's Register of Wills, you can find the docket number and location of the estate records for the property you are researching. Using this information, you can go to the register of wills for the county where the will originated and access the complete docket. Some historic wills are not yet recorded in the database and it is necessary to look up the estate in the index provided at the register of wills.
