The BBC website is reporting this story today: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30609619 > > ... which says that copies of post-1858 wills for England and Wales can > now be downloaded online rather than having to be ordered by post, as > has always been the case up to now. > > A little more digging found this official government site: > > https://www.gov.uk/search-will-probate > > ... which looks to have scanned (and annotated) indexes to the post-1858 > will calendars, and a facility for onlne ordering at £10 per will. > > I just wondered if anyone else has seen/used this? The facsimile of the indexes is something which has been available on Ancestry for a couple of years. Now, direct access to actual images, or even to an image at a more reasonable price than £10, would have been news. The indexes, especially the early ones, are detailed enough to make access to them and a concerted trawl for all likely references valuable, but the images more readily avaialble would have been a real break-through. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society