Hi John The documents available at DocumentsOnline are the PCC copies in series PROB 11. The original wills (where they survive) are in PROB 10. You can seek out your ancestor's will at TNA in person, or get a researcher to do it for you. Hope this helps. Caroline Sent from my iPad On 18 Jul 2011, at 18:46, "John Stevens" <john.stevens27@virgin.net> wrote: > Does anyone have experience of obtaining a copy of a pre-1858 will from this source please? > > Following on from the recent posts about obtaining copy wills I did a search on the TNA > website and was delighted to find an ancestor's will there dating from 1838. Having duly > parted with my hard-earned cash and downloaded the image I am rather frustrated to find > that what I have is a beautifully hand-written copy of the will in an identical hand to the quite > unrelated wills before and after it. Any ideas please on how I might get to see the original > document in my ancestor's own fair hand? > > Thanks > > John > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >