Have you seen today's massive new addition to the Ancestry database? Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills 1384-1858, complete with images. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex

I can't believe it, Marion. I spent a week trying to get a will from TNA, and there it is on Ancestry this week. I'm excited to see what else is there! Thanks for posting this. Lynne in Tucson -----Original Message----- From: Marion Woolgar Sent: Monday, January 06, 2014 12:38 PM To: SUSSEX-PLUS@rootsweb.com Subject: [SXP] PCC Wiils on Ancestry Have you seen today's massive new addition to the Ancestry database? Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills 1384-1858, complete with images. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I have had a number of E-mails overnight from people who are not able to find the new PCC Wills database on Ancestry. Firstly, I'm not sure what subscriptions it is on. I currently have the full subscription, thanks to receiving a Christmas present of FTM 2014 that comes with a 6-month subscription to the Ancestry World package. Ancestry are not normally slow to publicise their new releases, so I have been looking for an Ancestry press release about the PCC Wills, but I can't find one at present. Someone has suggested that it might be a gradual roll-out to avoid the web site crashing due to demand, so perhaps if you can't access it now, you might be able to do so in a couple of days. If PCC Wills do not come up as a search result, then it might mean that there are no results to offer for your particular name(s). However, to be sure, you could try using the direct link to the PCC Wills search page at http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=5111 . Finally, it seems that Ancestry has built its own index to the Wills and it looks as though there is the usual crop of very iffy transcription errors. If you don't see the names that you are expecting, you can make a free search on the TNA web site at http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/records/wills.htm and also on TheGenealogist web site at http://www.thegenealogist.co.uk and they will provide a useful cross-check to the Ancestry results. I have had a number of queries along similar lines, so I am also posting this to the Sussex-Plus List in case it might be helpful to others. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex