Hi Joy, When you find out......please share it with me. Hilda Cooper, Sydney.NSW ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy" <lyko@aanet.com.au> To: <AUS-NSW-SYDNEY@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2006 12:34 PM Subject: [ANS] OBTAINING WILLS > Hi everyone > > My name is Joy Light and I am fairly new to this list and NSW > researching, having most of my families coming from Victoria, where I > live. > > I am wishing to obtain a couple of wills, which I have found the > reference numbers for in the Probate Index. > Is there a cheap way of getting copies of these wills please? > > In Victoria we can go to the Public Record Office and either transcribe > the will ourselves or get it photocopies for about 70c a page. > > The last and only time I ordered a will from NSW, I was charged $56 for > just 6 pages. Now I admit the cover letter came on beautiful paper and > the will was a good photocopy and it was in a nice little display > folder, but I can do without all of that, I just need the information. > At that rate, if I could hire a researcher to go and transcribe them for > me and it would still be cheaper. The other alternative would be if I > could transcribe it myself, would be to get a cheap flight up to Sydney > for the day, and do it myself. > > Any advice would be truly appreciated on the best way to go. > > Regards > > Joy > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-NSW-SYDNEY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.409 / Virus Database: 268.14.7/537 - Release Date: 11/17/2006 > >