<<It costs £3.50 to download a will.>> How is payment made? Credit card is the only possibility I can think of. I use PayPal for international sales on eBay (it's very smooth, they handle exchange rates and everything for a reasonable fee of about 2%) but I doubt if the archives are signed up for PayPal. Is there some provision to do the money exchange? Persuading British Paces to do the test is tough, especially if the request comes from this side of the Atlantic. So many of the rip-off genealogy offers come from the US that most Brits don't trust the Pace Society and think it's just another one. Gordon Pace (of Canada) has tried without success, and he is related to many of the British Paces in Shropshire and has visited there. As a British librarian, you would have much more credibility to do the persuading. Actually, we would love to get more British Pace DNA from anyone--and funding would not be a problem; many of us are eager to donate to such an endeaver. Roy -----Original Message----- From: genealogy@snuffy.britishlibrary.net [mailto:genealogy@snuffy.britishlibrary.net] Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 9:10 AM To: PACE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PACE-L] Finding Pace descendants in London (Richard line) While we're waiting to see what the DNA upgrade can tell us, it occurred to me that those interested could make a collective onslaught on the available online early Pace records, looking at Paces who lived in and around Middlesex, in the 18th century. We could try to trace from each of those 18th-century Paces towards the present day, in the hope of getting all the way to the present day and finding a living male-line descendant. If we could find a suitable living descendant, then we could invite him to participate in the DNA project. My reasoning is that any Paces living in that area during the 18th century could _conceivably_ be descended from relatives of Richard and/or Ant's ancestors. IF (big if) we could find a descendant who was willing to participate, we could compare his DNA to Ant's as well as to that of the possible Richard descendants in the database. Could be interesting. Even if we don't find a suitable DNA candidate, it might throw up possible ancestors of Ant's. I was thinking we could start by examining the wills archive at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills.asp. There are some interesting Pace wills listed in Middlesex in the 18th century. Several of them are the wills of mariners. The wills can be accessed at the Family Records Centre in Islington manually, but that would be very slow. Much quicker if we use the online archive. It costs £3.50 to download a will. My suggestion is that anyone who wants to could volunteer to buy a will and then share with the list the relevant information contained in it. (I don't think we're allowed to post an actual transcription, because of copyright, but we could say what names and relationships are mentioned.) Then we could put our heads together and identify the most promising leads to follow, and from there we could search the relevant parish records for further information. Anyone interested in trying this approach? Ellen ==== PACE Mailing List ==== Be sure to check the Pace Family Genealogy Forum at http://genforum.com/pace/ and the Pace Network at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~pace

At 09:24 08/02/2006 -0600, Roy Johnson wrote: ><<It costs £3.50 to download a will.>> > >How is payment made? Credit card is the only possibility I can think of. I >use PayPal for international sales on eBay (it's very smooth, they handle >exchange rates and everything for a reasonable fee of about 2%) but I doubt >if the archives are signed up for PayPal. Is there some provision to do the >money exchange? Payment is by credit card. When you use a credit card to pay for something in another currency, the exchange gets made at the exchange rate which prevails at the time the money leaves your credit card account. This happens automatically. At present rates £3.50 is about USD 6.09. Some card providers might make an extra charge, I don't know about that. >Persuading British Paces to do the test is tough, especially if the request >comes from this side of the Atlantic. So many of the rip-off genealogy >offers come from the US that most Brits don't trust the Pace Society and >think it's just another one. Gordon Pace (of Canada) has tried without >success, and he is related to many of the British Paces in Shropshire and >has visited there. As a British librarian, you would have much more >credibility to do the persuading. Actually, we would love to get more >British Pace DNA from anyone--and funding would not be a problem; many of us >are eager to donate to such an endeaver. ??? I'm neither British nor a librarian. We might not even find anyone to persuade, so the problem might not arise. If we do find a likely candidate, of course they might not be interested but then again they might. Ellen