PCC Will Images - ancestry
 

I don't know whether this has just been added, or if I have just not noticed it before? Anyone know, please? I would hate to think I have been wasting money buying these from TNA!

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/...bid=5111&enc=1

I'm sure I have a couple in my basket on TNA site right now that I was waiting to get when I had the money... now I should be able to look at them right away!

Trust you to be organised and put stuff in your basket waiting to pay for them! If I did that I would know what I should look at first on Ancestry - at the moment I'm going round in circles like a headless chicken!!

I'm pretty certain this database only appeared this side of Christmas. I wonder why they didn't announce it?

Yesterday, I was searching for the Trash/Mollony families to help Di and clicked on a PCC will hit and was surprised to find actual images of the will in question.

Funnily I have found this today whilst researching my Stilwell family.
All the wills I paid £3.36 for to the National Archives website I could have saved!

My basket always empties itself if I go away and come back later, so I've got nothing in it.

There was me thinking it must have been around for ages and I hadn't noticed.

I wonder if they wanted to wait till the workers amongst us were back, so the servers didn't get overwhelmed?

Yes, mine seems to be empty, but luckily I can remember what the wills were anyway. Sir William Hodges baronet and his son Joseph.

Well, I'm glad I didn't have to pay £3.36 for each of those two wills as they didn't help, lol.

I could have saved myself a tidy sum last year if this had been available then. I have found at least 10 Parrott wills I could have downloaded.

I have looked at a certain UK family history blog quite a few times in the last few days looking for a mention of the addition of the GRO BMD indexes to FamilySearch and saw no mention of the PCC wills on there although quite a few news items had been added in the last day or two (no mention of the BMD indexes yet either.)