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Re: probatesearch website
« Reply #45 on: Thursday 10 February 22 16:02 GMT (UK) »
I sent an email this morning and I've just received the following reply.

Thank you for contacting GOV.UK.

Your enquiry has been passed to the HM Courts & Tribunals team who manage the 'Find a will' service.

They will investigate and respond to you directly.

If you have feedback about the service or would like to contact them directly, email:

hmctswills@ironmountain.co.uk

So it looks like I'm on a merry go round! I've already sent two emails to ironmountain, without a reply

I have asked them to send the wills I've paid for to my email address if the site is going to be down indefinitely.
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Re: probatesearch website
« Reply #46 on: Thursday 10 February 22 16:04 GMT (UK) »
Similarly to torre but a bit different.....

Having raised a "ticket" with the "Government Digital Service" in addition to ironmountain, I received this respose - the first part of which was unhelpful and the "Troubleshooting" bit was just wrongly applied.

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Hello again--

Your request (#xxxxxx) has been updated.

If you reported a software bug or error with GOV.UK, and you don't think it has been fixed, you can reopen this request by replying to this email. If your enquiry was about another government department's content or service, it may have been passed on to that department to respond. Please see below.

Thank you,

GDS User Support Team


Dear XXXXXXX

Thank you for contacting GOV.UK.

Your enquiry has been passed to the HM Courts & Tribunals team who manage the 'Find a will' service.

They will investigate and respond to you directly.

If you have feedback about the service or would like to contact them directly, email:

hmctswills@ironmountain.co.uk

In the meantime your original query with GOV.UK will now be closed.

Troubleshooting:

It can take up to 4 weeks for you to receive your documents.

A new probate record will appear online approximately 14 days after a grant of representation has been issued.

Regards,

AM
Government Digital Service
GOV.UK



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Especially looking for - Sealey, Rogers, Cannings, Box, Sheppard in Wiltshire; Virgin, Slade, Abbott, Saint, Harper, Silverthorn in Somerset; and Virgin, Tarr, Beer in Devon

And most especially the origins of William Cannings,  a Baptist, born abt 1791 in Broughton Gifford, Wiltshire

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Re: probatesearch website
« Reply #47 on: Thursday 10 February 22 16:18 GMT (UK) »
I've had a response from Iron Mountain! Not a personal reply as such, but a fresh email saying my order is ready.
"Sign in to your online account via the following link https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk and go to the “My Documents” page to access your documents."
It sounds like 'my wills' is now 'my documents'. But there isn't a link anywhere to that either! I can sign in and out happily but only have a choice of a new search, the 'my account' page for changing password, the so-called help, or sign out. Has anyone seen a link 'My Documents'? Where should it be?
(Win10 and Firefox, both up to date.)

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Re: probatesearch website
« Reply #48 on: Thursday 10 February 22 16:55 GMT (UK) »
A few weeks ago I ordered a Will but omitted to enter the middle name.  They diid inform me and I replied with full details.  Again they said they couldn't find it so I sent a screenshot of the entry. They replied to say I had to reorder and pay again.
I was ill and didn't get round to it. Now that the updated site is  running the form says " enter first name " .
Nothing about full name.
So , what have other people done.
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Re: probatesearch website
« Reply #49 on: Thursday 10 February 22 16:58 GMT (UK) »
Please may I suggest that, unless you need a copy of a will for current legal procedings, you leave the will site well alone for the time being.

I do not work for HMCTS or Iron Mountain, but I am sure, just like you and I, they know there is a big problem to be sorted.

While I appreciate the frustration we are all experiencing, myself included, who ever is supposed to be fixing the problem is most probably trying very hard to do so. Every day, they must be losing hundreds or thousands of £1.50's in revenue. Someone will be accountable for this debacle.

And us bombarding them with emails may not be helping them to achieve their service level agreements and potentially adding to a backlog.

The wills are there, the calendars say so, whether you use FindMyPast or Ancestry to search.

Please have patience.

Family history is not a fast hobby.

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Re: probatesearch website
« Reply #50 on: Thursday 10 February 22 17:15 GMT (UK) »

Managed to sign in, get to My Account page, no other options

If I look at HELP it says :

How to get your copy grant and/or will.

You won’t be able to access the grant/will straight after ordering it. You will get an email confirming your order but this will not mean that your copy is ready to be downloaded.

You will get an email when it is ready to download. You will then be able to log in to the system and go to “My Willsand save each available item to your computer. After you have logged in, the copy will be available for 31 days, so make sure that you save it before then.


Just in case it helps anyone to order a Will, I have documented the process that seems to work now (not obvious sadly).


If I search for a Will before logging in, I get the relevant page from the index, then say "Open Image",  then  "Show Form"  .   Now fill in the form - adding NIL into Folio number if appropriate - then "Add to Basket".

Now you can log in and at the top you can see "My Basket", click on that and you have the ability to "Place Order", which I don't want to do unless I am sure I will be able to retrieve it.

I CANNOT see my existing orders which I have been advised are ready to download.  Has anyone found their previous orders available?

Haven't found a way of searching whilst logged in   ::) 


I think Dawnsh is very fair in what she says about not continuing to raise support queries and giving the developers a breathing space to get it up and running;  but from what I have seen it will be a different process to follow once they have sorted it.  Let's hope that those of us who have paid for Wills will eventually be connected to be able to download them.

Pam

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Re: probatesearch website
« Reply #52 on: Friday 11 February 22 10:24 GMT (UK) »
Yes WDYTYA magazine has been writing about the issue on its website for a number of days. What is very disappointing is that the DOJ has not responded to their questions regarding what is going on.

The article in the link states that some records are " missing". This includes that of William Ewart Gladstone. Well all I can say is that it took me  a couple of minutes to locate his record by simply using a wildcard. Searching for Gladstone in 1898 produces no results but searching for Glad* produces 2 pages, his being on the second page. I also think that when a search produces pages of results it is wrong to assume as things stand that they are going to be in alphabetical or number order!

I am with Dawn on this  and am not going to order any more wills until all the current issues have been sorted.

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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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