----- Original Message ----- From: "diana whistler" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 9:44 PM Subject: [SOG-UK] PCC wills <<The SoG online data bases at MySog include an index of PCC wills for 1750 to 1800. This index was created by the SoG ... It would be interesting to know how the coverage in this index compares with the online searching of wills available at The National Archives Documents Online website ... However, possibly the SoG index offers improved coverage of wills that may be missed in The National Archives Documents Online? ... Does anyone have any comments on the completeness of the coverage of PCC wills offered by the TNA online searching?>> In some local areas (e.g. in Lancashire) one finds that there are effectively two sets of probate indexes. One set is based on the entries within the original probate registers, which indicate the wills which theoretically ought to have survived, but which don't always do so. (These are the indexes published by the Record Society of Lancashire & Cheshire.) The other index or database is compiled directly from the wills themselves, which have been shown in actual practice to have survived. (Further details at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LAN/probate.html under Archdeaconry of Chester and Archdeaconry of Richmond.) Has something similar happened with the PCC wills? AJ