On 10/01/2013 08:00, Dan wrote: > I have been looking for a Will on ScotlandsPeople for Ann Jenkins who died November 25, 1917 at 30 Bank St in Arbroath. I am not having any luck finding this Will but I have found her sister-in- > laws Will who is also Ann Jenkins who died February 5, 1910. > If a Will is not on ScotlandsPeople does this mean the person had no Will? > Dan - in past times, it was very expensive to officially record your will in the central commissariot record, so that many families simply kept the will within the family, and implemented its provisions after the maker died. Those wills that were centrally recorded is what appears on scotlandspeople, and therefore just a small percentage of the total wills actually written. In later years, the costs were vastly reduced, so nowadays effectively all wills get properly recorded. Regards, Gordon Johnson.