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Recent Indexes to English, Welsh, Scottish and Irish Probate Records

The information here should be read in conjunction with the fifth edition of Probate Jurisdictions: where to look for wills by Jeremy Gibson and Else Churchill (Federation of Family History Societies, Bury, 2002). It is designed to supplement that publication and probably can't be understood fully without it.

This is intended to be a listing of indexes to English, Welsh and Scottish probate indexes which have been produced since the publication of Gibson & Churchill's book. Many other indexes are listed in that volume and should also be consulted by genealogists seeking probate records. I'd be interested to hear of other new indexes, but I do not intend to list those mentioned in Gibson & Churchill unless they appear in a new version, so please check there first before telling me about anything published before 2001.

It should also be noted that Ancestry have scanned and indexed many of the printed volumes of indexes, especially the earlier ones. The volumes covered for a particular county can be found by going to the Parish and Probate Records for that county, but they don't list the publisher, volume number in a series, the editor or publication date, so it is difficult to make comparisons with the statements about accuracy and coverage in Gibson and Churchill, which are mostly by publisher and volume number only. Some of the titles listed on Ancestry do not correspond exactly to those on the BRS list, which further hampers comparisons. Chris Phillips' site Some Notes on Medieval Genealogy provides a list which attempts to correlate the records on Ancestry with the published book titles. They are not listed here

https://community.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/probate.php

Find a Will

A government site to find wills or probate of any prson in the UK who died after 1996 aqnd Soldiers Wills for anyone who died in the British Armed Services between 1850 and 1986

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/#wills

Probate: 

Access to post-1858 England and Wales wills; index of wills for soldiers who died on active service from 1860–1982 

www.gov.uk/search-will-probate


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