The New Zealand Probate records have been online for a while, but it is an on-going project between Archive NZ and FamilySearch so a press announcement has been made to tell us all that a million+ images are now online … Continue reading
The Oxfordshire Transcribed Wills project which is run by the Oxfordshire Family History Society has certainly come along nicely since I last visited the site. I haven’t been able to ascertain how many wills are now online, but the number … Continue reading
Thanks to http://www.genealogyintime.com for the newsflash that FamilySearch has added another 384,000 images to it’s New Zealand Probate Collection 1878 – 1960. Tracing wills in NZ isn’t a straight forward business as they are kept in a number of different … Continue reading
When you enter England as the location in the Ancestry.co.uk Card Catalogue and leave all other boxes blank it comes up with 991 entries. There are the well known and well used censuses, civil registration indexes, the London parish registers … Continue reading
Percival Boyd would have loved the internet, he was a prolific indexer and produced the Boyd’s Marriage index and the lesser known, but as important Boyd’s Inhabitants of London and Boyd’s Family Units. I can imagine that if he was … Continue reading
