Many thanks for this.  I tried a great-grandfather who I knew had a will and found him quickly via this link and your good directions.  No surprises but I'm looking forward to searching others. Thanks again for sharing this.Virginia   From: Joyce Presnall via <[email protected]> To: Elizabeth Knowlton <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2015 1:10 PM Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] Joyce's familysearch link for New York state wills It look like that link broke for some reason Elizabeth, I'll  try it, see if it works better this time. https://familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https://familysearch.org/recapi/sord/collection/1920234/waypoints I have found with these that each county is a bit different and some have more info than others...also some you can easily find by year and first letter of last name.  I am also finding you are not likely to find "poor" people here...I cannot find a LOT of my ancestors, but have found a few. Those who owned farms seem to have Wills are there was so much to inherit...and they accounted for EVERYTHING LOL --even the number of Hams in the smokehouse :-) Happy Hunting Joyce