TheGenealogist Adds Over 330,000 Historic Wills and Probate Records

The valuable records in these nine collections cover 500 years from the 14th century to the 19th century.

Archdeaconry of Cornwall Wills and Administrations 1569-1699.
A Calendar of Wills, Gloucestershire 1541-1650.
Calendars of Lincoln Wills 1320-1600 (covering Lincoln, Leicester, Rutland,
Northampton, Huntingdon, Bedford, Buckingham, Hertford, and Oxford).
Wills and Administrations Preserved in the District Probate Court of Lewes 1541-1652 (covering East Sussex).
Dougal’s Index Register to Next of Kin, Heirs at Law, and Cases of Unclaimed Money.
Commissariot Record of Edinburgh, Register of Testaments, 1514-1600.
Commissariot of Inverness, Hamilton & Campsie Testaments, 1630-1800.
Abstracts of Probates and Sentences in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1620-1624.
Prerogative Court of Canterbury Wills Index 1653-1656.

If you don’t have access to TheGenealogist, you should be able to find free online access to most, if not all, of these resources through a combination of FamilySearch, Internet Archives, Google Books, as well as subscription sites Findmypast and Ancestry. The title may be slightly different.

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