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Title: UK probate 1950
Post by: HughC on Thursday 17 July 25 07:12 BST (UK)

Do you have a relative whose will was proved in the UK in 1950?

If so, go to the FamilySearch web site and enter his name and the year of death to 1950.
Does it give Calendar, Idaho as the place?
If so, please click on the Feedback icon at the foot of the page
and tell them how stupid they are.

Evidently someone in Utah doesn't understand the term probate calendar.

Title: Re: UK probate 1950
Post by: KGarrad on Thursday 17 July 25 09:51 BST (UK)

Found 1 and reported the idiocy! :D
Eva Garrad who died 1st March 1950, probate 28th July 1950
Apparently at Calendar, Idaho, Idaho, United States.
Should shoe Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire.

Title: Re: UK probate 1950
Post by: HughC on Thursday 17 July 25 09:57 BST (UK)

I just wonder how many such reports it will take before they do anything about it.

And it's not just 1950: I've just found someone who d. in 1942 with UK probate granted the following year, also apparently in Idaho.

Title: Re: UK probate 1950
Post by: Chris Doran on Thursday 17 July 25 17:08 BST (UK)

It might be advisable to check the dates too against any other sources you have, e.g. was that 1st March really 3rd January?

I'm currently fighting the E&W 1989-2024 Death Index which is notoriously infected with these. Curiously, when they hit an impossible month they had the nouse to reverse the numbers (or occasionally change the date to complete nonsense), but the entire project must have run to completion without anyone twigging that this had to be done for the entire database >:(

Title: Re: UK probate 1950
Post by: HughC on Thursday 17 July 25 17:24 BST (UK)

Thanks for the tip-off, Chris.

I don't really trust anything I read at Ancestry.com,
but I did think the Mormons were a bit more professional.