Let's clarify. The indexes are City Hall and the Family History LIbrary, but the actual wills and administrations are at the City Archives. Is this correct? If so, and if one has already checked the indexes, can one just order the wills at the C.A.? Thanks. Merle -----Original Message----- From: LaniMacA@comcast.net To: philly-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 3:57 AM Subject: Re: [Phly-Rts] Orphans Court question Kay, Though the Will may have been misfiled, it is possible that it's actually missing. One time when I requested a Will I was informed that it had been missing since they last inventoried the Wills in the 1980s. It isn't always the fault of the Register of Wills department or their archives. When I was at HSP, back in the day when the research room was upstairs, a patron was given a file and was about to pocket a clipping he took from it -- he didn't understand why he couldn't take the actual clipping when it pertained to HIS ancestor! -- Lani ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PHILLY-ROOTS ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PHILLY-ROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.