Thank you Nivard. Nivard Ovington <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all Noticed the following now available on Ancestry England & Wales, Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills, 1384-1858 1,012,964 records These are the full wills as found on the National Archives Why post this on a list for Scotland you may ask, well a keyword search for Scotland gets 403 hits Lanark* gets 31 A small drop in the ocean perhaps But there are many for Scots, where place is not mentioned, two of my Lesmahagow born relatives died and left wills in England, one was perhaps the largest discovery I have ever made back a decade or so ago when these were first released on the National Archives Neither mention Scotland in the indexes NB the indexing is a tad wavy as usual so use some imagination in key word searches But a huge asset for our research Of those that I already have the NA copy the Ancestry pages appear to be clearer but that may not always be the case Enjoy -- Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) PS the NA being in this case the National Archives at Kew ------------------------------- WHEN REPLYING to a post please remember to snip most of the earlier message. Be sure the reply to address shows as [email protected] You may contact the List Admin at [email protected] or click on the following link to the list information page online: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/intl/SCT/LANARK.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message