The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) has added many new entries to its Name Search, including a number of pre-1858 will indexes.
Archive for the ‘Wills’ Category
53,000 new entries added to PRONI Name Search
Posted in Wills, tagged family history, genealogy on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Society of Genealogists’ collection now at Find My Past
Posted in Parish registers, Wills, tagged family history, genealogy on January 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The Society of Genealogists’ collection of family history databases has moved from British Origins to Find My Past.
North East Inheritance Project index now online
Posted in Wills, tagged family history, genealogy on December 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The probate catalogue of Durham University’s North East Inheritance (NEI) Project is now online. The project aims to put online wills proved and administrations granted in the Diocese of Durham (covering County Durham, Northumberland and parts of Cumberland and the North Riding of Yorkshire) up to 1858.
British Record Society Probate Collection goes online
Posted in Wills, tagged family history, genealogy on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
An index of wills proved at 16 church courts has recently been made available online.
Northern Ireland will images go online
Posted in Wills, tagged family history, genealogy on November 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Images of wills proved in the north of Ireland from 1858-1900 have now been made available online.
Oxfordshire Wills Index 1547-1857
Posted in Wills, tagged family history, genealogy on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Origins Network has added the Oxfordshire Wills Index to its National Wills Index website.
National Probate Calendar 1861-1941
Posted in Wills, tagged family history, genealogy on August 11, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The National Probate Calendar 1861-1941 has just been made available online.
More Forest of Dean records
Posted in Articles, Directories, Inquests, Monumental inscriptions, Parish registers, Wills on July 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
David Watkins’s excellent Forest of Dean Family History website continues to add transcriptions of more and more useful records and other information.
New records coming to the National Wills Index
Posted in Wills on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Origins Network has announced that several projects related to the National Wills Index (NWI) are currently underway. These include the digitisation of all the British Record Society (BRS) indexes, including some not yet published.
National Wills Index for England and Wales
Posted in Wills on May 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Origins Network has announced that, following exclusive agreements with the British Record Society – which has the largest set of indexes to English wills – and other organisations with major collections of source material, its database of probate records is about to grow very rapidly.



