Genealogy Chat

Hi Jane You'll also find wills at www(.)nationalarchivist(.)com/ Debbie

Hi Jane, glad a2a was useful. You need to get in touch with the repository that has the document. That is listed a the side of the document, there are details on the website. Check the 'new a2a users' on the header. Steph

Thanks everyone you're all marvellous. Gwynneth i will try my local library next time i go and see what information they have on wills there. Stephanie Bland. a2a proved very usefull. one question how do you get the documents once youve found them on a2a ? there's a couple there that could prove very useful. Helen the information you gave me proved very useful. i now have four wills to add to my document collection. Thanks again everyone Jane

For Herefordshire a search for 'Wills of Herefordshire' takes you to outlines of wills posted by various people, who you can then contact if you find a family link, - Not much use in answer to Somerset but other counties may have a similar set up.

For info on obtaining wills post 1858 see link from resources page here.

Hi, It is pre 1858 - I mistyped in my message above. Not all the wills are online yet, it is an ongoing project. There are books indexing all PCC wills in the library at Kew and in most record offices. Gwynne

try this to take you to the right page www(.)pro(.)gov(.)uk/online/docsonline(.)html (take out brackets) Click on the PCC link in the text. This has all wills pre 1858 (I think) that were proved at Canterbury. This includes all of the South of England. The North of England were proved at York but these are not online. If a person had property in the North and South, Canterbury ruled York. If you find the will you want you can dowmload for about £3. But I warn you they are very difficult to read!!!

In Birmingham libary are books with lists of pre 1838 wills for each county as well as the PCC wills, maybe a library near you also has these books. They give names and dates plus reference numbers. There are national indexes for post 1838 wills in most record offices and in some larger libraries. Hope this helps, Gwynne

there are some wills and lots of other documents at : www.a2a.pro.gov.uk you can search by name, worth a try! steph

Thanks for that Margaret. I tried tried typing in Somersetdocuments and found nothing. Jane

Hi Jane, For Scottish Wills - http://www.scottishdocuments(.)com There must be a similar site for the rest of the UK? Regards Margaret

Can anyone please tell me if there is a site where i can check out the wills for somerset.?? Thanks Jane