Hi John, You may well be correct.   My only reason for commenting to the Forum was to highlight something that might not be obvious to those of us who normally deal in relatively small numbers of deaths per year.   With most of my names of interest I was looking at 2 or 3 entries per year - so no problems, but with Smith there were 157 pages in 1994.    Rather than page through them, I took a calculated guess and changed the page number in the top bar to 70 and was very surprised to find I was in the Ws.   After one or two other checks it became obvious that the Smiths were not simply alphabetical by forename, so I thought this might be helpful information to others unused to large numbers!  Sue 6000 researching Pascall ----- Original Message ----- From: john titterton <john@titterton.org.uk> To: 'SUE FISHER-PASCALL' <suefp@btinternet.com>; goons@rootsweb.com Cc: Sent: Tuesday, 23 December 2014, 23:25 Subject: RE: [G] Find a Will Hi Sue This may not apply to what you are experiencing but are the wills ordered by date of Probate rather than date of death. John John E Titterton MA, FSA Chairman Ashbourne Heritage Society Ashbourne, UK www.ashbourneheritagesociety.org.uk www.ashbourneheritagecentre.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: goons-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:goons-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of SUE FISHER-PASCALL via Sent: 22 December 2014 18:49 To: GOONS@rootsweb.com Subject: [G] Find a Will I have noticed that some of the Probate Index pages are not in order - I was looking at Smith died 1994 and found that several pages with forenames beginning with later As and a few Bs were interspersed throughout the list and after the last forename initial, the list began again with Bs through to Ws.   I don't know if this was a one off name/year, but if you think you should be finding someone and they are not there, it might pay you to page through.   It would be Smiths wouldn't it - I eventually found him in 1995 - which does seem to be in order!! Sue 6000 researching Pascall _____________________________________________ RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message