Free Texas Probate Records and Wills

Probate records and wills are available online from all over the U.S. and are what I consider another hidden gem of information that can assist you in advancing your family history and genealogy research.

What can you find in these records? How about the date of death, spouse’s and children’s names, birth order, siblings and siblings’ spouses, parent’s names, and residence locations for all named persons. Also, ownership of land and/or other significant property, business names and occupation, military service, guardianships, and adoptions. Basically, anything owned by the deceased is typically listed and to whom it is to be assigned.

I won’t pretend to be an expert on the probate process – all I know is that I have discovered an amazing amount of good information from probate records and wills as part of my personal genealogy research. 

Here are a few good primers on the benefits of searching probate documents and wills:​

• FamilySearch – United States Probate Records
• Wills and Probate Records are Genealogy Riches 
• How to Use Wills and Estate Records to Learn About Your Ancestors 
• Probate Records Could Be the Key to Unlocking Your Family’s Hidden Past

​Below, listed are links to probate records, wills, and indexes available for free online for the state.

Note: Please be aware that if you find a desired will or probate record in an index, the holder of the actual materials (e.g., (archive, county court, etc.) may charge a small fee to send you a copy of the material itself.

Note: Some of the links listed take you to a FamilySearch Collection of digital images. Near the bottom of the page under Film/Digital Notes is the name of each sub-collection. If there is a camera icon at the right of the name (in the Format column) then the collections’ images are browsable. If there is a camera with a key icon, it is only available at a Family History Center or affiliated library. If there is a film reel icon, then it is only available in microfilm format, not digital. To take full advantage, please make sure that you are logged in to FamilySearch. The results may be different if you are signed in, rather than not.

(Updated December 2023)

Texas Probate and Wills

• Anderson County, Probate Case Papers, 1846-1899
• Anderson County, Probate Records, 1846-1878; Probate Minutes, 1846-1916; Indexes, 1846- 1991
• Anderson County, Civil Case Papers, 1846-1923; General Index, 1898-1942
• Aransas County, Early Records
• Archer County, Probate Records, 1884-1933
• Archer County, Wills, 1875-1907
• Atascosa County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 7, September 28, 1857-March 6, 1939
• Austin, Probate Obituaries (Delayed Death Records) and Indexes, 1800-1990
• Bell County, Probate Records, 1800-1917; Index, 1850-1951
• Bexar County Wills, from Book A
• Bowie County, Probate Minutes, 1889-1931; Probate Index, 1924-1949
• Bowie County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 19, February 10, 1883-June 11, 1940
• Bowie County, Probate Index Lists, 1895-1940
• Brazoria County Probate Index
• Brazoria County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 20, March 30, 1832-October 29, 1939
• Brazos County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 21, April 26, 1841-March 1, 1939
• Brooks County, Probate Minutes, 1911-1937; Index, 1911-1990
• Brown County, Index to Probate 1880-1964, Probate Records 1882-1885
• Brown County, Probate Records, 1880-1935
• Brown County, Wills, 1880-1933
• Brown County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 25, November 19, 1878-November 7, 1938
• Burnet County, Minute Books and Civil Case Papers, 1867-1907
• Burnet County, Probate Records, 1852-1935; Index, 1852-1990
• Caldwell County Probate Minutes and Records, 1849-1922; Index, 1849-1990
• Calhoun County Probate Index, 1846-1914
• Callahan County, Probate Births
• Callahan County, Probate Record
• Camp County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 32, November 4, 1871-January 9, 1939
• Cass County, Probate Records, 1889-1935
• Chambers County Index to Probate Cases of Texas. No. 36, Oct 25, 1876-March 6, 1939, nos. 1-373
• Chambers County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 36, July 31, 1876-March 6, 1939
• Cochran County, Probate Case Files, 1925-1940
• Coke County Probate Minutes, 1891-1939 and Probate Packets, 1891-1914
• Coleman County, Probate Minutes, 1919-1941
• Coleman County, Probate Records, 1881-1943
• Coleman County, Records, 1849-2008
• Coleman County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 42, August 17, 1876-January 4, 1939
• Collin County Index to the Probate Packets 1846 – 1915
• Collin County, Probate Minutes and Indexes, 1846-1931
• Collin County, Probate Packets, 1846-1915, 1919
• Colorado County, Probate Minutes and Records, 1837-1940; Index, 1835-1960
• Comal County, Index to Probate Minutes, 1913-1981; Probate Minutes, 1913-1934
• Comanche County Records, 1858-1955
• Comanche County Records, 1858-1955
• Comanche County, Probate Records
• Concho County Records, 1849-2008
• Concho County, Probate Case Files, 1881-1937
• Concho County, Probate Minutes, 1879-1933; Index, 1879-1940
• Concho County, Records, 1849-2008
• Cooke County, Civil and Probate Minutes, 1849-1936; Probate Papers, 1849-1880; Index, 1849-1972
• Cooke County, Probate Records, 1849-1982
• Cooke County, Probate Records, 1849-1982
• Coryell County, Probate Minutes, 1917-1934
• Coryell County, Will Records, 1867-1930
• Dallas County Probate Records
• Dallas County Probate Case Packets, 1842-1906; Index, ca. 1846-1904, 1842-1906
• Dallas County, Probate Petition Record, 1879-1930
• De Witt County, Probate Minutes
• Delta County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 60, September 23, 1870-November 2, 1939
• Dimmit County Probate Index
• Early Dallas County Wills
• Eastland County, Probate Birth Records, 1860-1933
• Eastland County, Probate Records, 1870-1986
• Ellis County Will Books
• Ellis County, 1700-1957, Vol. 11, Family Bible Records, and Wills
• Ellis County, Probate Records, 1850-1941; Probate Docket Index, 1850-1988
• Ellis County, Will Records, 1853-1940
• Erath County, Probate Minutes, 1866-1934; Index to Probate Records, 1866-1938
• Falls County, Probate Minutes, 1851-1935; Index, 1854-1943
• Fisher County Probate Files, 1882-1903 and Probate Index and Minutes, 1887-1940
• Fisher County, Records of Official Bonds, 1886-1940
• Franklin County, Heirship Papers
• Franklin County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 80, August 20, 1875-August 2, 1939
• Goliad County, Probate Records, 1870-1950
• Gonzales County Index to Probate Case Files, 1832-1918; Probate Case Files, 1832-1890
• Gonzales County Probate Minutes, 1845
• Gonzales County, Commissioners’ Court Minutes, 1857-1871
• Gonzales County, Probate Records: Case Files, Probate Minutes, 1838-1962
• Grayson County, Deed and Probate Records from the Charles Quillen Survey (township of Collinsville) and Founders and Early Settlers of Collinsville
• Gregg County Probate Records, 1876-1934
• Gregg County, Minutes, 1873-1935
• Gregg County, Probate Records, 1873-1933
• Gregg County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 92, January 23, 1872-January 31, 1939
• Grimes County Probates, Wills and Estate Records
• Grimes County, Index to Probate Delayed Birth Records
• Grimes County, Probate Minutes, 1838-1957
• Grimes County, Probate Records of Births, 1939-1957
• Grimes County, Probate Records of Births, 1939-1967
• Grimes County, Probate Records, 1878-1941
• Guadalupe County, Index to Probate Cases of Texas, No. 105, Hays County November 22, 1848- December 15, 1939
• Guadalupe County, Probate Records, 1846-1910; Probate Minutes, 1846-1931; Index to Probate Minutes, 1846-1948
• Guadalupe County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 94, March 22, 1846-August 11, 1939
• Guadalupe County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 94, March 22, 1846-August 11, 1939
• Hamilton County, Probate Minutes, 1916-1935
• Hardin County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 100, September 9, 1867-March 18, 1939
• Harrisburg County Historical Probate Extracts 
• Harrison County Probate Records, 1838-1944
• Haskell County, Probate Index, 1885-1955 and Probate Minutes and Estate Files, 1885-1938,
• Hays County, Index to Probate Cases Filed in no. 105, November 22, 1848-December 15, 1939
• Hays County, Index to Probate Cases Filed in no. 105, November 22, 1848-December 15, 1939
• ​Hays County, Probate Records and Minutes, 1839-1917
• Henderson County, Probate Records, 1846-1936
• Hood County, Probate Records, 1875-1936
• Hunt County Index to Probate Packets (1848-1972) and Addendum to Index of Probate Packets (1894-1950)
• Hunt County Probate Packets, ca. 1849-1925
• Hunt County, Texas, Probate Docket, 1882-1936
• Irion County, Probate Minutes and Dockets, 1890-1953; Index, 1890-1976
• Jim Wells County, Probate Case Files, 1911-1937
• Jim Wells County, Probate Minutes, 1850-1937; Index 1911-1951
• Johnson County Index to Wills 1854-1914
• Johnson County, Probate Records, 1854-1945
• Karnes County, Probate Records, 1865-1907; Index to Probate Records, 1875-1934
• Kaufman County, Probate Minutes, 1849-1933
• Kenedy County, Probate Minutes, 1860-1908
• Knox County, Probate Minutes, 1886-1935
• La Salle County Probate Index
• Lampasas County, Probate Records, 1876-1937
• Lavaca County, Probate Minutes, 1916-1938
• Liberty County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 146, December 9, 1850-July 28, 1939
• Madison County, Probate Records, 1873-1950
• Marion County, Probate Minutes, 1860-1935
• Marion County, Probate Packets, 1860-1885
• Marion County, Wills, 1859-1909
• Marion County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 155, May 15, 1860-May 2, 1939
• Matagorda County Probate Records, 1837-1900
• Matagorda County Will Records, 1827-1894
• Matagorda County, Probate Case Files, 1822-1932
• Matagorda County, Probate Minutes, 1889-1939; Index to Probate Minutes, 1913-1950
• Menard County, Probate Records, 1888-1934
• Milam County, Probate Records, 1874-1955
• Mills County Clerk Records, 1841-1985
• Mills County Clerk Records, 1841-1985
• Mills County, Probate Case Files, 1892-1937
• Mills County, Probate Minutes, 1887-1941; Index, 1881-1973
• Mills County, Small Estates Records, 1967-1993
• Mitchell County, Probate Record, 1881-1974
• Mitchell County, Will Record, 1878-1997
• Montague County, Minutes, 1876-1985
• Montague County, Probate Minutes, 1873-1935; Index to Probate Minutes, 1874-1950
• Montgomery County Will and Probate Abstracts
• Morris County Probate Records, 1876-1943; Index, 1800-1953, 1800-1953
• Nacogdoches County, Index to Complete Probate Records, 1837-1917
• Navarro County Abstracts of Wills, 1848-1890
• Navarro County, Probate Records, 1871-1937; Index, 1847-1978
• Navarro County, Miscellaneous Record Book, 1846-1874
• Newton County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 176, July 26, 1846-June 30, 1939
• Nolan County, Probate Case Files, 1881-1937
• Nolan County, Probate Court Minutes, 1881-1938; Index Minutes Probate Court, 1880-1937
• Nolan County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 177, July 1, 1881-Nov. 17, 1939
• Nueces County, Wills, Cemetery, Church and Bible Records
• Orange County Index to Probate Cases of no. 181,March 20, 1852-December 31, 1938
• Panola County, Final Estate Records, 1846-1927
• Panola County, Probate Minutes, 1846-1923
• Parker County, Probate Minutes, 1874-1935; General Index, 1874-1950; Probate Packets, 1862-1889
• Parker County, Wills, 1874-1945
• Robertson County, Probate Minutes, 1838-1972
• Robertson County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 198, April 30, 1838-September 1,1939
• Robertson County, Index to Probate Cases of Texas, no. 198, April 30, 1838-September 1,1939
• Rockwall County, Probate Records, 1875-1938
• Runnels County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 200, November 30, 1880-January 16, 1939
• Rusk County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 201, June 18, 1843-December 29, 1939
• Rusk County, Index to Probate Cases of Texas: no. 201, June 18, 1843-December 29, 1939
• San Saba County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 206, January 30, 1866-June 28, 1939
• Schleicher County, Probate Minutes, 1882-1938
• Shackelford County Index to Probate Minutes, 1875-1880; Probate Records, 1880-1937 and Wills, 1881-1927
• Shackelford County Probate Births, 1897-1978
• Shelby County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 210, November, 1881-Aug. 11, 1939
• Smith County, Probate Minutes, 1847-1931; Probate Docket, 1879-1927; Index to Probate Cases, 1846-1976; Index to Probate Minutes, 1846-1879; Probate Packets, 1846-1900; Probate Packet Addendums, ca. 1854-1866
• Somervell County, Probate Records, 1917-1942
• Stephens County, General Index 1887-1949, Probate Minutes 1887-1938, and Will Books 1884-1958
• Sterling County, Probate Record, 1892-1941
• Stonewall County Probate Minutes, Estate Files and General Index, 1890-1945
• Swisher County Records, 1879-2012
• Swisher County Records, 1879-2012
• Swisher County, Probate Records, 1891-1954
• Tarrant County Probate Records Index, 1876-1927
• Tarrant County Probate Records Search
• Taylor County Index to Probate Minutes 1909-1941
• Taylor County, Probate Case Files, 1921-1937
• Taylor County, Probate Records, 1880-1938
• Texas Probate Records, 1800-1990
• Texas Records from Bibles, Probate Records, Wills, Cemeteries, 1639-1954
• Texas, Probate Records, 1800-1990
• Texas, Index to Probate Cases of Texas
• Throckmorton County Probate Minutes and Index 1879-1934, Will Records 1887-1912, and Bills of Sale 1879-1947
• Titus County Probate Records, 1895-1969
• Titus County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 225, December 18, 1893-December 15, 1938
• Titus County, Index to Probate Cases of Texas, no. 225, December 18, 1893-December 15, 1938
• Tom Green County, Probate Cases, 1920-1932
• Tom Green County, Probate Minutes, 1882-1938
• Travis County Probate Records
• Trinity County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 228, Dec. 12, 1872-Dec. 13, 1939
• Van Zandt County, Probate Records, 1848-1934
• Victoria County, Probate Records, 1890-1944
• Waller County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 237, October 1, 1873-May 6, 1940
• Wharton County, Probate Minutes, 1848-1938
• Wichita County Will Abstracts 1882-1927
• Wichita County Abstracts of Wills (1882-1895)
• Wichita County, Probate Minutes, 1882-1934
• Wichita County, Wills, 1882-1927 
• Wilbarger County, Probate Records, 1882-1934
• Willacy County, Probate Minutes and Index, 1921-1952
• Williamson County Probate Case Papers, 1848-1878; Index, 1848-1938
• Williamson County Probate Minutes, 1848-1934
• Williamson County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 246, October 16, 1848-December 27, 1938
• Williamson County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 246, October 16, 1848-December 27, 1938
• Wise County, Probate Minutes, 1882-1933; General Index, 1882-1907; Index to Probate Docket, 1900-1991; Probate Docket, 1899-1930
• Wood County Probate Minutes, 1878-1917; General Index, 1878-1942; Probate Packets, 1878-1889
• Wood County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 250, September 12, 1857-May 9, 1939
• Wood County, Index to Probate Cases of no. 250, September 12, 1857-May 9, 1939
• Young County Index to Probate Records, 1876-1959 and Probate Records, 1858-1938
• Young County Probate Records, 1876-1883