In message <NGBBKJHCKLMJOBFCILMNKEOFCGAA.ricketts@omninet.net.au>, Pat Ricketts <ricketts@omninet.net.au> writes > >Hi to fellow listers > >Have received a copy of a Will proved Oxford 1866 of an ancestor. At the >end of it "17 folios" is recorded. It means the original was in 17 sheets (34 pages) so this is something like a will worth having, even allowing for all the repetitions. (One the other hand, 'folio 17' just means that it ended on the 17th sheet of a register book, and could be any length., If it is '17 folios' that was the full length. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society