Genealogy Chat

Just spotted this on another well known forum:

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/?advancedSearch=True&IsGrantSearch=True#wills

It is a beta version of what, hopefully will become a full service - it seems to cover 1996 to present day, 1858 to 1996 and soldiers wills.

Guess what I sent off for yesterday - by post! :-|

After tomorrow the search should go back to 1858. See Mary's thread about the probate search room closure.

Edit: It seems to imply you will be able to order a download.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1347255

Thanks KenSe. I hadn't read thru all that thread. :-)

I just ordered one that had been meaning to do for a while......only because probate was granted the day I was born :-)

Anyway it should be available for me to view in 10 days and have 31 days to download it

Just hope I remember to keep checking my emails

I have just been looking up lots of possibles for future reference.

It's a very good site and, if nothing else, will tell you the date of death in cases where you only have the Qtr (from FreeBMD). It isn't perfect, though. I started by looking for some where I knew there was a will, but there are some missing. Perhaps it isn't completed yet?

Its possible that it didn't have to go to Probate. Our neighbour's husband died last year and his widow had said they had written mirror Wills.
After a lot of agro, it was decided that the Estate was too small to go to Probate.

Same thing happened with a friend's father who died in 1998 - everything was left to his widow - no Probate calendar entry.

On the other hand, a work collegue who died last year 4 weeks after the neighbour IS listed on the calendar!

I was thinking the Same Det...My gran died in 1995 My dad was left most of it with a little going to my cousin in Oz.... nothing showing for her

Andysmum, make sure you check a few years after death date as well

It costs £10.