UK Find-a-Will charges

[CarolA3]

Folio numbers; if there is one (printed within the entry, or handwritten next to it) then it MUST be entered on the order form.

If there isn't one, leave that box empty.  Obviously.  It's in the instructions.

Btw, unless something changed in the last couple of days, I don't think GRO would be discussing applications for wills?!

Carol

[BumbleB]

Must just be a problem with the 1880 probate (death 1872), as I've just received his widow's will for 1894. 

[Craclyn]

CaroleA3, Does that mean that there are additional documents if there is a folio number?

[melba_schmelba]

Folio numbers; if there is one (printed within the entry, or handwritten next to it) then it MUST be entered on the order form.

If there isn't one, leave that box empty.  Obviously.  It's in the instructions.

Btw, unless something changed in the last couple of days, I don't think GRO would be discussing applications for wills?!

Carol

The problem is, I don't think the Ancestry copy of the Probate indexes have the folio numbers written on them. You have to go to the probate site scans.

[CarolA3]

Replying to Craclyn:

As far as I know, just from reading what's on the website, it's a case of 'all or nothing'.

Where there's a number, enter it, and you get it all. 
Fail to enter it, and you get nothing.

Where there's no number, there's nothing to enter, but you get it all.

Carol

[CarolA3]

Replying to melba:

I haven't looked at this on Ancestry,  Can you order wills from them?  Presumably not, so you'd have to use the official site anyway.

Carol

[melba_schmelba]

Replying to melba:

I haven't looked at this on Ancestry,  Can you order wills from them?  Presumably not, so you'd have to use the official site anyway.

Carol

There is a link to the probate site to order, but no warning that the Ancestry copies do not contain the folio numbers or other annotations such as updated estate valuation. So you could easily think you have all the available data from the Ancestry copy and put in to the probate site being none the wiser that there is a folio number on the probate service's copy.

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/ukprobatecal/

[jc26red]

Has anybody had a problem with missing folio numbers before the service was outsourced?
Just wondering if it is a get out.

Also has anyone receiving an a mail saying the folio number was missing receive a refund?

Jenny

Personally I致e never had a problem ordering wills online before the price reduction and I知 wondering if I知 missing something here. I知 still waiting for my 2 August orders both dated after 1950.

[melba_schmelba]

Has anybody had a problem with missing folio numbers before the service was outsourced?
Just wondering if it is a get out.

Also has anyone receiving an a mail saying the folio number was missing receive a refund?

Jenny

Personally I致e never had a problem ordering wills online before the price reduction and I知 wondering if I知 missing something here. I知 still waiting for my 2 August orders both dated after 1950.

I suspect the civil service employees were more forgiving of missing folio numbers than the new outsourced company. I imagine a fairly high percentage are missing them if many family history researchers find the entry from the ancestry scans.