Forest of Dean Wills & Administrations Index 1858-1941 (Announce)

by admin , Forest of Dean, Sunday, September 26, 2010, 06:37 (4960 days ago)

Forest of Dean Wills & Administrations Index 1858-1941
http://www.forest-of-dean.net/?Wills_Index

General Information
The Index is now completed and consists of 8,416 Wills & Administrations of Forest of Dean people. The information in this database has been taken from the annual Will books held at Gloucestershire Archives. These Will books contain handwritten copies of wills granted probate at Gloucester between 1858 and 1941.

Beneficiaries and Others
While wills always provide information about the deceased and his or her heirs, many of these will also mention other family members by name and often by relationship. You may find siblings, children, illegitimate children, nephews or nieces whose existence you never suspected.

As the names of other people mentioned in the Wills is of great value to the family history researchers we are also in the process of extracting the names of these people and putting them in an additional Index database and referencing them to the Will they appear in.

Extracting the names of the other people that are mentioned in the Wills is of course going to take much longer to complete. So far the following years have been completed 1858-1891. Futher years will be added periodically.

A Special thanks to David Drinkwater together with Glenn & Lynne Robertson for creating these Indexes