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UK wills available online

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  • #2
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    The link in the article is incorrect. The link given is for pre-1858 wills (so Dickens, Turing, Potter etc won't be there).

    The post-1858 wills are here: https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate

    Its basically an ability to search the pre-existing will calendars a little better (and more recently) and then order wills online for relatively rapid dispatch. I've a few on my list of otherwise dead ends that I might venture the cash for. I'd be extremely glad if Ancestry offered the ability to show me everyone I've recorded as dying in the UK without me having to go through my increasingly addled memory for the info!


  • #3
    pinkypinky
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,614 Mod ✭✭✭✭pinkypinky


    There's a link on the side of what the Irish Times linked to, which has "famous wills".

    Genealogy Forum Mod



  • #4
    L1011
    Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Motoring & Transport Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 67,523 Mod ✭✭✭✭L1011


    pinkypinky wrote: »
    There's a link on the side of what the Irish Times linked to, which has "famous wills".

    All pre 1858 also though.


  • #5
    Catsmeow
    Registered Users Posts: 22 ✭Catsmeow


    Thank you for those links. I had a quick look and found will entries for 2 of mine in the 1920s. Cheers, Catsmeow


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