The index to Lancaster Co wills covers the period 1729 to 1850. The online abstracts (at least the ones I'm familiar with) cover the period 1729 to 1819. I believe that accounts for most of the difference you have cited. That said, I understand it doesn't explain the absence of Samuel Huber's will. If I remember correctly, Ed Wright's book "Abstracts of Lancaster Co, PA Wills..." includes exactly the same information that appears online. Both, of course, could include errors of omission. The abstracts were originally published many years ago (early 1900s) by the Historical Society of PA. Wright's book and the online abstracts are simply reprints of the same material. As with anything, errors occur when original materials are retyped and repackaged for publication. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Allen" <allen.richard74@yahoo.com> To: <palancas@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2011 7:04 PM Subject: [PALANCAS] Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills,1786-1820 LOOKUP I need a look in "Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1786-1820 " for the will of Samuel Huber, dated 1788. A check of the U.S. Gen Web Archives did not show this will even in the index, while it was present as several of you helpfully commented, and in the online Heritage Quest index. A comparison of the Huber wills listed in Heritage Quest in the index was made to those with the Huber names in the U.S. Gen Web Archives, and this showed that less than one half of the available wills of that surname were ever transcribed in the latter. So use the later with caution, especially as to determining whether or not someone left a will, let alone a probate. It is not known whether the U.S. Gen Web Archives posting of transcribed wills for Lancaster is going to continue or not, but I feel they first should have placed in their index all of the available wills, and then shown in another color those for which a transcription had been made online. Therefore their index, as it exists now, is only to wills already transcribed, not all those available for Lancaster County, which is two different things entirely. For example there are 44 wills of the Huber name listed in the index in Heritage Quest. However, only twenty have been transcribed and appear in the index for the U.S. Gen Web Archives for Lancaster Co. It looks to be like someone "goofed up" somewhere! The index should have been the first to be transcribed to completion, before any individual wills were transcribed,at least in my humble opinion. Perhaps it started out with volunteer submissions of complete wills? I would imagine that the Abstracts of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Wills, 1786-1820 is complete and comprehensive for those dates? Richard B. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PALANCAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Whatever it's faults, would someone please send me the URL for the online wills. Thanks. Graham