Release 230 000 World War I Wills/Letters by Soldiers on their way to battle

[LizzieW]

I found my g.uncle - his attestation papers are missing so presumably amongst the burnt ones, or perhaps they were hidden away all this time.

Like others, I keep getting the unknown order error.  When you bring up the search page, there is a heading Beta:  This is a new service - your feedback will help us to improve it.  So I gave them the feedback about the unknown order error, but not heard anything yet.  They're probably inundated with people complaining about the same thing.

Lizzie

[acorngen]

What no one has noticed is that this site is in Beta stage and as yet the will ordering is not working nor is the link to send them feedback.  For those whose ancestors died in WWI and whose will doesnt appear here check the calendars that are on Ancestry as some seem to be indexed there and this site only contains those not previously published. The way this is going it looks to be that we are going to get another repeat of the 1901 census release

Rob

[millymcb]

Just found my Grandfathers will, should recerive it in ten days

Slaw - did you actually manage to order and pay for the will as the rest of us have not been able to get it to work an Rob is saying it is not up and running properly yet?

Milly

[millymcb]

Like others, I keep getting the unknown order error.  When you bring up the search page, there is a heading Beta:  This is a new service - your feedback will help us to improve it.  So I gave them the feedback about the unknown order error, but not heard anything yet.  They're probably inundated with people complaining about the same thing.

Lizzie

I sent them feedback too.... good feedback on how the search was working and a screen grab of the error.  Presumably they will appreciate the feedback as they did ask for it 

Milly

[millymcb]

Hi,
       Thanks for the link ev.

I have just found my great uncle who died in France in 1915  have paid for his will

which I have been informed will be downloaded within 10 working days and will be available to view

for 31 days from the download date.

Midlad.

Same question for you Midlad.... did you actually manage to get the payment process to work?

Milly

[ev]

I could be wrong but I think they may only be From English regiments as I believe the wills from paybooks for Scottish soldiers are still held in Edinburgh.

I sent www.gov.uk  an email asking about this earlier today and am waiting a reply I will post the reply here when I get one.

Scottish informal Wills(from paybooks , I think) are referenced here -
http://www.nas.gov.uk/onlineCatalogue/ (Click on the search button at the top)

Bruce , I think you are correct , I've looked for a few Scottish men with no results.
They are on the NAS site.

ev

[andi]

Hi,

I've just registered on the above GOV site and tried to download my Gt Grandfathers WW1 will but it doesn't seem to have worked. I add to the basket, proceed to checkout but then it's not asking me for payment details? Has anyone had the same problem?

Andi

[dawnsh]

These wills are 'unprobated' so don't appear in the national calendars. They were written whilst on active service and kept by the military.

If your ancestor had taken the trouble to have written another will which was kept by the family or solicitor then those are the ones that appear in the calendars.

[youngtug]

It seems you are not alone in this; http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=659529.10

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