Yorkshire Wills

[Kit]

Just checking - Yorkshire Wills are not online are they?

[kiterunner]

No, you have to order them from the Borthwick Institute.

[Mary from Italy]

You can find an index on FMP, and you can order them direct from there.

[Kit]

Thanks Kite and Mary.

Will have a look. I doubt my people left wills but thought I'd check just in case.

[JayG]

Leeds Archives have Yorkshire wills for part of North Yorkshire (Archdeaconry of Richmond), as well as some parts of West Yorkshire so not all of Yorkshire is held at BI. Leeds have recently added the North Yorkshire wills to their online catalogue, i've found lots of rellies on there lately. Not sure if they've done the same for the West Yorkshire or if they were already included in the catalogue.

Here's a link to Leeds Archives' wills guide.

http://www.wyjs.org.uk/documents/archives/Collections%20Guide%204.pdf

[ElizabethHerts]

Leeds Archives have Yorkshire wills for part of North Yorkshire (Archdeaconry of Richmond), as well as some parts of West Yorkshire so not all of Yorkshire is held at BI. Leeds have recently added the North Yorkshire wills to their online catalogue, i've found lots of rellies on there lately. Not sure if they've done the same for the West Yorkshire or if they were already included in the catalogue.

Here's a link to Leeds Archives' wills guide.

http://www.wyjs.org.uk/documents/archives/Collections%20Guide%204.pdf

That's great news, Jay.

Could you please post the link for searching the online catalogue?

[Kit]

thanks JayG. Sounds great.

[Kit]

Could you please post the link for searching the online catalogue?

Ditto. I tried looking myself but can't find it.

[JayG]

Here's the link

http://catalogue.wyjs.org.uk/Default.aspx?

From what i've managed to work out the refs start R D/AP1 so I always do an advanced search inputting that ref in the catalogue finding number, searching on that alone gives 25921 results.

[ElizabethHerts]

Thanks, Jay.

[Kit]

thank you. :)

[Mary from Italy]

Thanks very much, Jay. I've searched with some of my names, and only North Yorks people seem to be coming up.

[Janet]

Cowling, Sutton in Craven, Glusburn, Crosshills in the West Riding all there, as well as my Horsforth people. Still looking. Thanks, Jay!

[Kit]

Nothing for my lot on there but I wasn't really expecting anything so not disappointed.

[ElizabethHerts]

I must say that the hits don't give enough information. Many of the ROs give much more so you don't have to click unnecessarily to find out what the document contains.