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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #9 on: Friday 04 February 22 17:58 GMT (UK) »
Still no luck - surname is Archbell, so tried Arch - only results were Archer, so then tried Arc - only results were Archer!!!!
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
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Archbell - anywhere, any date
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Milner - WRY
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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #10 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:02 GMT (UK) »
I just came here to the forum after trying to order a couple of wills which I know exist because I have the register entries which I downloaded from the old website. Now, the new version of the search is returning “0” records. For example, I’m looking for William Hicken, died December at Stratford on Avon 1917, probate 1918. I can now find nothing! Am I doing something wrong?

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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #11 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:06 GMT (UK) »
Dave - probably not!!!!
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #12 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:06 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Davedrave on Friday 04 February 22 18:02 GMT (UK)
Am I doing something wrong?

No, not your fault, the web site is just junk. They may as well take it offline until they fix this nonsense.
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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #13 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:07 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Millmoor on Friday 04 February 22 17:52 GMT (UK)
I think with some surnames  you might have to try wildcards. I found my grandfather's entry easily but then tried to find Charles Postle who died in 1920. I already have his will! However searching for the surname Postle in 1920 produced no results. It was only when I searched using Po* that the pages came up.

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Try Millmoor's method with the wild card.

I couldn't find a relative Wayman who died in 1969 (I already have the will). Putting in Way* as the surname gave me two pages and she's on it.

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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #14 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:13 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: cuffie81 on Friday 04 February 22 18:06 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Davedrave on Friday 04 February 22 18:02 GMT (UK)
Am I doing something wrong?

No, not your fault, the web site is just junk. They may as well take it offline until they fix this nonsense.

I’ve just looked again at the website, and it is now down for “essential maintenance”, so presumably they’ve had word from users that it is kaput, or someone put the site back online before it was ready. Let’s hope it works when it reappears. What was wrong with it before anyway?

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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #15 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:16 GMT (UK) »
And now it’s back and still broken! I’ll keep away from it til at least next week.

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Re: Probate Register
« Reply #16 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:20 GMT (UK) »
Found William Hicken by searching in 1918 for Hic*. This produces 4 pages of results. William Hicken is on page 3. I think one problem is that when a wildcard search produces multiple pages they are neither in alphabetical order or number order!

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Dent (Haltwhistle and Sacriston), Bell and Jetson (Haltwhistle), Postle, Ward, Longstaff, Purvis, Manners, Parnaby and Hardy (Co. Durham), Kennedy and McRobert (Banffshire), Reid(Bathgate), Watson (Wemyss), Graham (Libberton), Sandilands (Carmichael), Munro (Dingwall)

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« Reply #17 on: Friday 04 February 22 18:21 GMT (UK) »
As so often happens when they tamper with something that works well, we end up with an inferior website. ::)
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.
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