While searching yesterday I noticed New York County is not set up like the other counties I have looked at. For them, will seem to be arranged a few years at a time in alphabetical order, so check the lists for wills in the time frame and last name you are looking for. The index at the bottom that says will index, is not an index for the wills at all. It is a list of testators. It probably won't help you. Newer wills (from about the 40's to present) are not indexed BUT many have index cards with a different type of numbering system. Those newer wills probably need to be obtained on a local level. It probably has to do with NY State privacy laws OR familysearch just does not have the newer stuff in their files yet. Many people die without a will, so checking the probate files might help you also when you search. There are a lot of different types of files on the page I sent out, so explore the others a bit too. The files are huge BUT you won't always find the person you are looking for. Happy Hunting Have a great day Joyce -- Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, Norton, Gerard, and many more...

Joyce and all, This is not exactly true. If you read the entire court document, hopefully you will see, as I did with the 5 that I found, the details of the will spelled out after the proving is done. In other words, the beginning of the documents prove that those making the claim and the contents of the will are true and then the wishes of the deceased are spelled out. Happy hunting, Gail Jorgensen ~ Gail Schinnerer Jorgensen ~ On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Joyce Presnall via <[email protected]> wrote: > While searching yesterday I noticed New York County is not set up like the > other counties I have looked at. > > For them, will seem to be arranged a few years at a time in alphabetical > order, so check the lists for wills in the time frame and last name you are > looking for. The index at the bottom that says will index, is not an index > for the wills at all. It is a list of testators. It probably won't help > you. > > Newer wills (from about the 40's to present) are not indexed BUT many have > index cards with a different type of numbering system. Those newer wills > probably need to be obtained on a local level. > > It probably has to do with NY State privacy laws OR familysearch just does > not have the newer stuff in their files yet. > > Many people die without a will, so checking the probate files might help > you also when you search. There are a lot of different types of files on > the page I sent out, so explore the others a bit too. > > The files are huge BUT you won't always find the person you are looking > for. > > Happy Hunting > > Have a great day > > Joyce > > -- > Researching Stephenson/Stevenson, Fleury, Heald, Lindelof, Young, Rubino, > Cammarota, Mandracchia, Vaiarelli, Mulhern, Johnson, Haight, Erickson, > Munson, Northrup, Sears, Camp, Gunn, Allen, Gorham, Plumb, Beard, Rogers, > Eliot, Briscoe, Bradley, Mix, Wilmot, Pritchard, Mew, Stone, Sparke, > Bayley, Bailey, Redfield, Redfin, Howland, Tilley, Sturgis, Hinckley, Kirk, > Norton, Gerard, and many more... > > ------------------------------- > 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 >