Comments on: Probate Calendars to be Online Soon

By: More probate calendars for post-1858 wills to go online « Grow Your Own Family Tree

Mon, 23 Apr 2012 20:19:29 +0000

[...] can read more about these calendars and wills at Geoff Swinfield’s blog. Ancestry.co.uk already has a calendar of wills from 1861-1941. Share [...]

By: Geoff

Geoff — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 11:22:04 +0000

Reply from Di Bouglas, as I attended the meeting.

Simon:

Yes, we were told that these were documents which had been dealt with under (I think) the Regimental Debts Act. These are the boxes which some people may remember from the old Somerset House days. John Briden believed that they had been passed to the Probate Service so that they could add them to the calendars but that had not been done.

I understood that the cost will be on the same basis as it will be to purchase any will and/or grant online. Certainly no more than the current £6.

By: Simon Fowler

Simon Fowler — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:09:35 +0000

Some soldiers’ wills are actually in the Probate Calendars already. And very informative the entries are.
I suspect that the new material will pertain to the wills completed by soldiers in their paybooks.
Do you know how much access to this material will cost?

By: Brian Swann

Brian Swann — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 12:58:55 +0000

I certainly talked with John Briden on this back in about 2009/2010 I would guess and had the feeling then that something was imminent. But nothing seemed to happen.

As you well appreciate it is one of the key tools that needs to go online to trace people forwards to able to identify DNA candidates.

Can you enroll me on your feed, please. I did not know you had this – but I have always tended to look at Cliff Webb’s publications and the WSFHS site, for obvious reasons.