Begin forwarded message: > From: "patricia904974" <patricia.238hart@btinternet.com> > Date: November 30, 2010 5:11:17 AM CST > To: CountyDownGenealogy@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [CountyDownGenealogy] new flash from PRONI > Reply-To: CountyDownGenealogy@yahoogroups.com > > this below from PRONI office Pat H > > NEWS FLASH > On 29th November 2010 an updated version of the Wills Calendar > search was launched on the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland > (PRONI) website. 93,388 digitised images of copy wills covering the > period 1858-1900 have now been added, along with over twenty years > worth of calendar entries. > > This application now provides a searchable index to wills proved in > the district probate registries of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry > during the years 1858-1919 and 1922-1943. Part of 1921 has been > added, with remaining entries for 1920-1921 to follow in the near > future. > > Digitised images from copy will books covering the years 1858-1900 > have now been linked to the corresponding will calendar entries. A > total of 93,388 will images have been added to the database. These > documents are a valuable and widely used family and local history > resource that will now be readily accessible via the internet. Users > will be able to search the online index, read the will calendar > entry and view an image of the will for many of the entries. > > This project will help facilitate easy access to archives and is an > additional resource available to the public during PRONI's closure > and relocation to its new headquarters in Titanic Quarter, Belfast. > It is the latest addition to PRONI's online resources which also > include the Ulster Covenant, Freeholders Records, Street Directories > and Name Search. The site can be accessed via PRONI's main website: > http://www.proni.gov.uk/index/search_the_archives/will_calendars.htm > > Gavin McMahon > Public Record Office of Northern Ireland > 66 Balmoral Avenue > Belfast > BT9 6NY > > > Tel: 028 9025 5907 > gavin.mcmahon@dcalni.gov.uk > www.proni.gov.uk > > > __._,_.___ > Reply to sender | Reply to group | Reply via web post | Start a New > Topic > Messages in this topic (1) > RECENT ACTIVITY: New Members 4 > Visit Your Group > Switch to: Text-Only, Daily Digest • Unsubscribe • Terms of Use > . > > __,_._,___