{"id":33047,"date":"2026-05-01T05:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=33047"},"modified":"2026-05-01T05:38:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T10:38:28","slug":"proof-of-death-in-probate-records-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/proof-of-death-in-probate-records-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Proof of Death In Probate Records"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Depending upon the location and the time period, an individual\u2019s probate file may have a \u201cproof of death\u201d statement or affidavit. The court wanted to know that the person whose estate was being probated was actually deceased. In other places there may be no such record and the best estimate of date of death is simply before the first date the individual is listed as \u201cdeceased\u201d in the records.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"984\" height=\"571\" src=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/habben-proof-of-death.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/habben-proof-of-death.jpg 984w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/habben-proof-of-death-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/habben-proof-of-death-768x446.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 984px) 100vw, 984px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depending upon the location and the time period, an individual\u2019s probate file may have a \u201cproof of death\u201d statement or affidavit. The court wanted to know that the person whose estate was being probated was actually deceased. In other places there may be no such record and the best estimate of date of death is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153979,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153979"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}