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PCC wills indexing
I hadn't noticed this before....
I was looking for a PCC will on Ancestry but couldn't find it. Looked at the entry for it on the TNA index (Rev John Morewood, West Hallam Derbyshire proved 8 May 1828) and noticed they now have preview images for their wills. Of course they may have had these for ages as usually I just use Ancestry! Anyway the preview images were v useful as I looked at the first and end page images and on the end page image I could see the name of the following testator. Searched that name on Ancestry, and then skipped back to the beginning of the previous will; the one I wanted. I still don't know how Ancestry have indexed it, but never mind!
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Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
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I think that must be new, Merry. I haven't noticed it before and I often search on TNA first so I know whether there should be one on ancestry.
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Ancestry have indexed him as The Reverend John Morwood but have the probate date as 6th May 1828 instead of 8th May 1828. I've put corrections in.
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Thanks Kate. I thought it must be there.
Having failed with searching the probate date I did search year of death 1828 with West Hallam Derbyshire in the keywords. This would have made the entry appear back in the days when Ancestry's search facility worked properly!
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Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
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Strangely enough, if I do that search, it finds him!
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Do you get other matches as well? When I do that search I get nothing at all (in any category).
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Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
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Ah, I see. I get no matches at all (except family trees) if I use those search terms in the main search form for the whole site, but if I search the PCC wills only, it finds him.
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Ah, OK!
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Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
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It's been there at least a few weeks Merry, the TNA preview. It must be improving as I don't think I could really read anything the first time I saw it.
I mainly tend to use the TNA to see if there is a will then go looking on ancestry.
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The Wills preview on the TNA site has been there since at least July 2018 as it was drawn to my attention on another forum when I was having issues finding a PCC Will on Ancestry.
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