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Re: Long delay on Wills
« Reply #27 on: Wednesday 20 October 10 20:33 BST (UK) »
Mine arrived 7 weeks after ordering them.

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Re: Long delay on Wills
« Reply #28 on: Wednesday 20 October 10 22:51 BST (UK) »
I think they've been inundated since going online. Mine took quite a few weeks, you just have to be patient I'm afraid!

Interestingly, I ordered mine form York and they came from Norwich!  ???
Bell, Salter, Street - Devon, Middlesbrough.
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Re: Long delay on Wills
« Reply #29 on: Wednesday 20 October 10 23:23 BST (UK) »
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Interestingly, I ordered mine form York and they came from Norwich!

Mine did too.  I ordered about 20 August and went away on 19-26 Sept.  When I arrived the will was on the doormat, so couldn't have taken more than 21 working days.

I wonder if they have just sent a load to Norwich to deal with as they are so inundated with requests thanks to Ancestry.  I bet not many people requested wills when it meant going to the library to look at microfiche or similar.

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Re: Long delay on Wills
« Reply #30 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 15:51 GMT (UK) »
A will I ordered by post from York on 21 September finally arrived today - just over six weeks later.   It came from the Leeds District Registry with a note of apology for the delay "due to an increase in the volume of search requests" and notes that they are taking steps to rectify matters. 

As a matter of interest it took them nearly two weeks to cash my cheque (which cleared my bank on 4 October) so they are clearly snowed under with postal requests since Ancestry put the index online.

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Re: Long delay on Wills
« Reply #31 on: Wednesday 03 November 10 15:57 GMT (UK) »
My second lot were much quicker, I posted my order on 4th October and they arrived on the 29th (from Ipswich) so much more like the time scale you would expect.
Watson, Snowball, Pyburn, Heppell, Ferry, Holmes, Clennett, Kidd, Pescod, Bage Co.Duham & Northumberland
Stockton, Watson, Bage, Nellist N. Yorks
Challnor/Challoner Cheshire/Shropshire. Moore, Mansell: Wellington, Shropshire
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Re: Long delay on Wills
« Reply #32 on: Friday 15 November 19 00:25 GMT (UK) »
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Oops got the wrong thread, Mark

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Re: Long delay on Wills
« Reply #33 on: Friday 15 November 19 01:16 GMT (UK) »
all the previous posts on this thread date from 2010 and were for postal applications and postal delivery. This rather lengthy thread relates to electronic application and emailed will images and various people discuss delays https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=816033.234
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