Hello, 1) The following link has a sample of the Public Record Office (PRO) Wills that are available. This one for Sir Thomas Carpenter, Priest - reference RIN 14700 of the CE CD 2001. http://members.cox.net/johnrcarpenter/Will%20of%20Sir%20Thomas%20Carpenter%20Priest%20RIN%2014700%20118.pdf Those are hard to read. 2) Those 12 wills at the link you provided has only one Carpenter will and the others are witnesses or similar. The link you provided is: http://www.moonrakers.org.uk/md/Probate-Docs/waix0.html For a sample what is on the site you provided - Carpenters only - see: http://members.cox.net/johnrcarpenter/Wills%20on%20line%20probate%20documents%20at.doc 3) For the first link you provided - shows 181 wills of those surnamed Carpenter. See your message below. http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/wills_search.php Many reference only the following info: Example from P1/C/105 CatalogueCatalogue Title P1Probate records of the Consistory Court of Salisbury Ref No.P1/C/105 Alt Ref NoP1/C/105 TitleInventory, will Date1620 PersonCarpenter, Robert OccupationYeoman Place Key/Newton Tony/Wiltshire CommunityNewton Tony Image of Will - If Available When a copy of the will is available it is often the same as the one provided by the PRO (Public Record Office). And many for these, we have copies or cites from different sources. And the will copies are the same in difficulty for reading. This despite the web site. What is nice, is that the price of viewing the images is free. Yes, there are more wills than listed before and they will be reviewed. Especially the P4 series. See: http://members.cox.net/johnrcarpenter/Wills%20at%20the%20Wilshire.doc John R. Carpenter La Mesa, CA PS The links I provided on my web site are temporary and provided for reference & research. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce E. Carpenter" <carp@tezukayama-u.ac.jp> To: <Carpenter-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 4:43 PM Subject: [CARPENTER] Wills 3 > "Gene Zubrinksy, John Chandler, Terry Lee Carpenter and to a much lesser > extent I, have reviewed many English Carpenter wills when they started > coming on line in 2004." > > The wills you are refering to above are PCC wills. The wills on the > Wiltshire site are different, only lately available and more difficult to > read. > > BC