Ordering a will........................

[Helina]

Does anyone know the address and for ordering a will?  I believe its in York.

Any help would be appreciated.

helina

[nanny jan]

Hi Helina,

This is the site;  you can download a form:

http://www.hmcourts-service.gov.uk

The Postal Searches and Copy Dept., York Probate Sub-Registry, Castle Chambers, Clifford Street, York YO1 9RG.

Cost is £5.


Nanny Jan

[Plummiegirl]

Once you have sent off your order it used to take 14 days, but due to the Ancestry website showing probate records it now takes about 21/28 days.

But for a fiver you cannot complain, must be one of the cheapest things to send off for at the moment,  one wonders how long it is before they realise how cheap their service is and up their prices!!!

[josh jones]

I sure hope they start using debit cards/credit cards soon (or have they finally?).  The vouchers are not so easy to get as they sound when you are living outside the UK.  They would probably make a tidy sum if they added this service....I know it's the only thing that is putting me off ordering.  So, it'll have to wait till I go home and see my mom...  josh 

[Luzzu]

I sure hope they start using debit cards/credit cards soon (or have they finally?). The vouchers are not so easy to get as they sound when you are living outside the UK. They would probably make a tidy sum if they added this service....I know it's the only thing that is putting me off ordering. So, it'll have to wait till I go home and see my mom... josh

I know the feeling.  I send the form to my Mum and she pops a cheque in for me and posts it on and then I settle up when I see her  .

Luzzu

[Plummiegirl]

Josh Jones

Vouchers ?

The accept cheques and Postal Orders.

If outside UK does the site not give info about how to order when outside UK?

[Luzzu]

Payment from outside UK is by International Money Order in UK Sterling and this is probably what Josh means when he says vouchers.  Online payment with credit/debit cards would certainly be more convenient.

Luzzu

[gwen j]

Paying £5 for a copy of my Great Grandmothers Will was the best £5 I've sent on Family History so far! I had spent ages  looking for her daughter who had vanished after 1901 - I looked everywhere for her including overseas marriages and deaths.The Will sloved the mystery - it gave her married name and the full name of her husband! A quick Google and I found loads about her and her husband.  Turns out she met a Doctor and went out to Malaya to married him then sent 4 years in Changi prison during the War! Anyway,my Grandfather wasn't mentioned in his Mothers Will at all! Knowing my Gran,she'd probably got his inheritance early and spent it before the old lady died!

[josh jones]

re Plummiegirl - International Money Orders are all we can get and UK genealogy sites etc usually advise doing this however over here in the States they are hard to get (find).  Local banks do not carry them (there probably isn't a great need for them).  The last time I tried I was referred to a bank in downtown Seattle (some 20 miles from where I live) and they are expensive.  Of course if I were desperate and due to never leave the country....I'd go for it, but I do go home to visit family yearly.  Lots of other sites over there have updated to use of debit/credit cards....seems like this would benefit them also as I'm sure they would get a lot more business from over here cheap as the service is at 5 pounds even with postage and exchange rate fees.  josh