I've raved so much about the fascination of genealogy that a friend has recently decided to start tracing her own family history and I have become her "phone a friend" !
To try to prove the parentage of an ancestor born 1836, she is hoping there is a will for the probable father's 1861 Birmingham death and has asked me how to go about applying for one.
I've no experience of wills, other than TNA downloadable ones, but I've just read the wiki entry. Could someone with experience please confirm that I should tell her to write to Postal Searches and Copies Department at York and ask for a search from 1861 to 1865?
To try to prove the parentage of an ancestor born 1836, she is hoping there is a will for the probable father's 1861 Birmingham death and has asked me how to go about applying for one.
I've no experience of wills, other than TNA downloadable ones, but I've just read the wiki entry. Could someone with experience please confirm that I should tell her to write to Postal Searches and Copies Department at York and ask for a search from 1861 to 1865?
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