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Just received a will!
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An Olde Crone | Report | 21 Feb 2005 22:05 |
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I agree, A2A is brill! And I am a computer idiot so in the end I just gritted my teeth, put in the area (North West) and then tried every variation of spelling I could think of for my family name - Holden - there are twenty seven ways of spelling it on A2A. Then I sorted the 600 or so hits by date and just plugged my way through every entry, took me weeks, - oh, boy, did I find some stuff! Including a scrap-book (you may remember my hysterical excitement when I found that, it had details of a marriage I had searched for for FIVE YEARS). Various Wills. Many many land transactions. Umpteen settlemnt/removal/bastardy orders. A court case concerning one field which lasted over seventy years and provided me with nine generations of family!!! I have recently found a newspaper cutting reporting an accident of a possible relly who lives at an address which is significant to my family - didnt know about this man - waiting on hot needles for Lancs RO to email me back. A2A is a difficult site to search, I grant you that but it never ever fails to throw up something new for my family. Try all spellings of name, then try all spellings of area. Bet you find something! Marjorie PS I cannot fathom the NA site at all. |
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Louise | Report | 21 Feb 2005 22:41 |
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Thank goodness it's not just me. I have failed to find anything useful so many times on the A2A site! I finally got a few good hits in the last few weeks and I am now singing its praises. Stick with it, keep trying various name/place variations and eventually you'll get lucky. However, I'm not having much luck yet on wills (probably as I'm searching the wrong way) but I'm about to go visit the probate ofice in London to ask for help. I know some of my ancestors had land and/or money so they must have left wills! I'll post a message if I get any useful advice. Louise |
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Val wish I'd never started | Report | 22 Feb 2005 00:15 |
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are you saying £80 or more |
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Gordon | Report | 22 Feb 2005 09:33 |
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My cousin from Surrey looked up some names for me in the Wills index and I was shocked she actually found some of my GGparents who actually had wills even though they weren't rich or famous. When I rake in some more $$$ I will definetly fire off a money order or two get my hands on them. Considering I live in Canada, I'll spend the $100, better than $2000 in airfare lol lol. Speaking of the Will Indexes, has anyone in the past offered to do lookups of these? Just curious. Gord |
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LindaMcD | Report | 22 Feb 2005 17:34 |
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Sorry should have read £80,000. Have changed the header. Linda x |
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