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DelBoy
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spoons
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 Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 8:24 am Post subject: Re: 26,000 Scottish soldiers will to go online |
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It would have been nice if they had said, when, where and if they would be free. 
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David McNay
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| They almost certainly won't be free. |
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tanyagar
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I went and had a look... six pounds each...
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DelBoy
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 5:44 pm Post subject: |
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| tanyagar wrote: | I went and had a look... six pounds each...
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Have you a link? |
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apanderson
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tanyagar
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https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/
I think this is it... I clicked on various things from the article on the BBC website, so I'm not really sure how I got there!!
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apanderson
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A tad on the expensive side?
Just a shame they're not available through Scotland's People - a will from there is a fraction of that cost and there can be dozens and dozens of pages on it!
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David McNay
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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| The National Records of Scotland have tweeted that they won't be available online until May. |
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spoons
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£6 is probably ok for someone researching a single family member I guess but hardly a fair amount for someone researching a whole memorial. I would have liked to have seen it included in my not insubstantial Ancestry subscription.
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kinnethmont
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| Posted: Tue Feb 25, 2014 9:18 pm Post subject: 26,000 Scottish soldiers will to go online |
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The cost apart, these wills are not new in the public domain, they have been available for years.
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DelBoy
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True Jim, them going online and being easier to see is the real news story.
Edinburgh's not so bad for a day visit, but the cost of travel to TNA and accomodation in London is too much to justify for myself, and i imagine many others.
Lucky are those within a couple of hundred miles of London.
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kinnethmont
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| Quote: | | Lucky are those within a couple of hundred miles of London. |
Derek
Certainly true regards Kew.
These wills are in Edinburgh and those I have obtained over the years have been ordered from the comfort of my own home.
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