Hi Brian Are you then collecting transcripts of PROB 11 wills? If so I can let you have copies of mine. Jon -----Original Message----- From: devon-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:devon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Brian Randell Sent: 07 January 2014 22:28 To: <devon@rootsweb.com> Cc: Brian Randell Subject: Re: [DEV] Devon Wills Hi Tim: On 7 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Tim Treeby (Genealogy) wrote: > So long as you are looking at the right Dataset it definitely looks to > be all PCC Wills, with the actual copy of the will as you would get > from TNA. > As they definitely list one's up to 1858 and looking at the image > gives the actual Will. > The fact that i struggle to actually read the will is a different > matter, but it is there. Check the Devon Wills Project - just in case the will has already been transcribed or abstracted. Cheers Brian -- School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell ------------------------------------------ The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Jon: DWP is not collecting will transcripts, but I happily accept them for GENUKI/Devon, which by now contains nearly five hundred will transcripts. I of course would prefer transcripts of Devon wills that miraculously escaped the wartime destruction of the Exeter probate office, but am grateful for PROB 11 wills, and ones from other sources. My preference is for transcripts to be very simply formatted - basic text will do, rather than multiple fonts, footnotes, etc. - so as to ease my task of converting them to HTML. I also ask that they are accompanied by full reference details, obtained directly from the archive holding them. (In the case of TNA, PCC wills now have a more detailed reference number than they used to have, e.g. PROB 11/350/266 rather than PROB 11/350.) Thanks in advance! Cheers Brian On 8 Jan 2014, at 02:53, Jonathan Frayne <jonfrayne@btinternet.com> wrote: > Hi Brian > > Are you then collecting transcripts of PROB 11 wills? If so I can let you > have copies of mine. > > Jon > > -----Original Message----- > From: devon-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:devon-bounces@rootsweb.com] On > Behalf Of Brian Randell > Sent: 07 January 2014 22:28 > To: <devon@rootsweb.com> > Cc: Brian Randell > Subject: Re: [DEV] Devon Wills > > Hi Tim: > > On 7 Jan 2014, at 22:22, Tim Treeby (Genealogy) wrote: > >> So long as you are looking at the right Dataset it definitely looks to >> be all PCC Wills, with the actual copy of the will as you would get >> from TNA. >> As they definitely list one's up to 1858 and looking at the image >> gives the actual Will. >> The fact that i struggle to actually read the will is a different >> matter, but it is there. > > Check the Devon Wills Project - just in case the will has already been > transcribed or abstracted. > > Cheers > > Brian > > > -- > School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, > NE1 7RU, UK > EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 > FAX = +44 191 222 8232 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell > > > > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon ( > http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) and the Devon FHS > (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message School of Computing Science, Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU EMAIL = Brian.Randell@ncl.ac.uk PHONE = +44 191 222 7923 URL = http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/people/brian.randell