Susie, > I have a delemnia I hope you can help me with. I keep getting references >from researchers that say a person died and left a will. This is just a wild shot in the dark but I have found myself in a similiar situation and this was what I ultimately learned and thus my advice to you. Find out from the informant what the source of the information may have been. If it turns out, as it was in my case, that the source is from the IGI, the problem stems from a misunderstanding of what the symbol "w" stands for in the event column. "W" does mean, in brief, "will" but it is used to cover just about any probate document, including court cases that stem from the probating of an intestate estate. Thus the IGI lists the children of John Romine of Loudoun Co as being named in a "will" but there is none. The names are actually learned from the lawsuits that developed from the probate of the estate of John's father, Peter. Some people, looking for a will of a John Romine, find the will of my John Romine in Frederick and have then concluded that the Frederick Co John is the same individual as the Loudoun Co John. They are not but it has caused an endless amount of confusion. So you may be looking a similiar case where the information is not actually in a will but in a law suit somewhere and there is no actual will. So...again, track the idea that there is a will to the source reference for that will and see if it might be an IGI reference. Good luck. Renee L. Dauven