Probate calendar website down for maintenance
 

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/

It's down for maintenance until Friday.
I hope they don't put the prices up.

Maybe it will finally come out of beta?!

Now they are saying it won't be operational until 4th February. :mad:

https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk...asket#calendar

Most of the National Probate Calendar is available to search on other sites, such as Ancestry, FMP, FamilySearch. But not all of it. And of course you can't order via those sites.

Just when I had a couple of wills to order! I'm hoping they don't hike the prices.

I think when they put the price down they did say it was temporary. :(

They said it would be for a year, which is long ago.

I also thought it was a trial price so I hope they decide to keep it that way.

The website is live again but I'm having problems with it.
I have had to change my password but I still can't access it properly.

The format has changed.

The Continue button doesn't work.

I can now search but can't view the pages.
I suppose if I wait long enough it will behave. :(

On my Account details page it says:
MANNAGE YOUR ACCOUNT

And it STILL says "Beta This is a new service – your feedback will help us to improve it." But it is very different from the old website, which was "Beta" until the end. I can't believe that the new search screen still asks for year of death and proceeds to search for year of probate instead. Surely they could at least have made it ask for year of probate! I wonder whether they ever even looked at any feedback from the old version of the site.

At least it still says the price is £1.50. I don't remember my log-in details so I will wait until I'm on the other computer to try logging in.