Genealogy Chat

Why should it be any body elses business whether someone has divorced or not, who is still living?

If your ancestors had money they may have divorced but they were few and far between...if the marriage broke up they were likely to live together as husband and wife or marry bigamously.

Ancestry have probate details I don't think GR or FMP do?

Re divorce records...................read the first reply on here.................and not everyone is as blase about divorce as you appear to be

As for what you can get on GR, as we've already said, we don't use GR for research.

I already said where you can see Probate info..............but you'll have to pay £6.00 each for copies of the Wills.

You would have been wise to have found out what was on GR before forking out for Platinum membership. If you'd taken out a basic sub, you could have upgraded if you'd decided it was worthwhile

Jax: Thomas Shouksmith died 1862 in York. His wife Ann Shouksmith died 1864 in York. I know these two left wills because I've previously obtained them from the Probate registry, Duncombe Place, York. I've subsequently lost them. John Shouksmith died 1915 in York.

So my question is: I know these people left wills which were registered for probate, so how do I find details here?

From what's been said, it seems like I've made a big mistake paying good money to be a Platinum member here. When my membership runs out, can you suggest a better site I could join?

Reggie: I can't obtain details of ANY divorces - I mentioned my own purely as an example. Details of my marriage are obtainable here, so why should I (or anybody) be coy about a subsequent divorce. Maybe none of my ancestors were divorced, but it's the same general question: how do I obtain details about divorces here?

Even if a Will was written, it will not appear in records unless it went to Probate

......and recent divorce records are simply are not accessible.

Hardly anyone who helps on here uses GR for research.........we have basic membership on here, and use other sites.

Ancestry is, I believe, the best source of Probate records................and the NBI has a lot of burial info (transcribed by volunteers)

If you want to give some details we could have a look....Not every burial is online and do you know if they actually left a will?

1862 and 1864, 1915 for wills...

...and I should have said 'Platinum Member' - d'oh!

Wills & Burials: What sort of time period are you interested in?

"Wills and probate"

"Records in this Collection
Bank Of England Wills Extracts 1717-1845
Great Western Railway Shareholders Index
London Probate Index
Suffolk Testator Index 1847-1857

so again a limited number of records I think?

I don't use The records myself on here...if that's where you mean?

I believe some records are extra Parish. military and Travel & newspapers

If you are talking about another site...you will not find your own divorce it would be too recent....I would be horrified if anyone could access mine (if I was of course)

As far as I can see there are no recent Divorce records online at all, and on here it only seems to be up to the 1870s?

quoted from Nat' archives: The survival rate of divorce case files is:

"1858-1927: almost 100%
1928-1937: 80%
After 1937 : less than 0.2%"

Although I'm a Premium Member, I can't seem to use the Divorces section or the Wills section. None of either have ever come up (even though I know I'm definitely divorced, so something should appear!).

No luck with burials, either.

Am I missing something...