Dear Listers Can someone please tell me where or if I can find digitised copies of Welsh Wills after 1858. Not Probate indexes, but the actual Will? Cheers Wendy Australia
The National Library of Wales would be helpful. http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=121 Doug California, Missouri, USA -----Original Message----- From: Wendy <oziewoo@bigpond.net.au> To: Glamorgan List <GLAMORGAN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wed, Jul 27, 2011 7:45 pm Subject: [GLA] Welsh Wills Dear Listers Can someone please tell me where or if I can find digitised copies of Welsh Wills after 1858. Not Probate indexes, but the actual Will? Cheers Wendy Australia -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html - A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Unfortunately, Wendy, no such luck. Indexes at most State libraries and genealogical libraries are the only things available either on microfilm or microfiche - then one has to apply to the appropriate probate registry for a copy of the will and if you get it wrong!!!! So, one needs to take considerable care in making sure you have the right person from the index. Fortunately, in the majority of cases, the place of last residence is in the index and the executor/executrix is named. I have had much fortune in obtaining these wills in the past which have led to some amazing further finds in family relationships. Not so long ago I received the will of a first cousin twice removed 1943 which led to the finding of the addresses of two of his first cousins and two of his nieces, all of which (apart from the first named) I had formed the impression they had not married. Was I ever wrong! This then led to the finding of married-in families and so it went on for weeks, finding, finding, finding. The mind boggles! All from one will! Then again, another will of 1893 led me to the finding of a great-great uncle's daughter's (five of them) married surnames which then led on to children and grand-children. Absolutely marvellous, and a bonus of this particular will was that g.g.uncle had left a house with full addresses to six of his children. Sometimes you can sort of draw a blank wherein the will is only one quarter of a page in that the deceased simply leaves it to his/her spouse with no further information, but in my case most of the thirty or so wills I have obtained have yielded good results. No wonder I'm poor! Last year there was an online query - from I think National Archives - asking if genealogists would be interested in viewing an index online of post 1858 UK wills. Naturally, I answered yes, but seems that there will be no digitising of the actual wills re. free online access for some years to come - only the index. Money, money, money, eh? Can't really blame them, costs the earth to keep up archives. Good luck Cheers Graham Melbourne Oz