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kiterunner
11-11-22, 19:10
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62475/
ElizabethHerts
11-11-22, 20:00
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/collections/62475/

Fantastic!
kiterunner
11-11-22, 21:53
A lot of them seem to be indexed by surname only even though the given names are clear on the images.
kiterunner
11-11-22, 22:03
Normally with Ancestry I would assume that their transcribers were at fault, but several of those which I have looked at are indexed under standardised spellings of the surname, rather than the version which actually appears on the image (e.g. Moore / More, Craft / Crafte, Russell / Russel), so I am guessing that the surnames may come from the Hampshire Archives' catalogue entries and that Ancestry didn't index those records.
Phoenix
12-11-22, 13:22
And some standardisations are fanciful, to say the least.
Phoenix
12-11-22, 19:38
In some cases the indexing has slipped. In 1748, several of the links are out by one.

If the wrong will comes up, check the "finding number" with Hampshire Archives catalogue, increase/decrease it by one and then search for those names on Ancestry.
kiterunner
19-05-23, 18:40
Looking at the search page, what on earth is a "Will Village"?
Phoenix
19-05-23, 21:32
Something they have yet to decide. Kings Somborne, for example, doesn't appear on their list yet.
Merry
20-05-23, 07:20
Something they have yet to decide. Kings Somborne, for example, doesn't appear on their list yet.

It does if you put an apostrophe in King's!! :D
Phoenix
20-05-23, 07:44
Lol! And it does appear under, I think, marriages post 1754.

I am so glad I have no Macs or O's in my family.
Phoenix
20-05-23, 07:45
View Record Name Will Date Will Place View Image
View Record Thomas Holmes 1689 Kings Somborne, Hampshire

Glad they are consistent.
Mary from Italy
21-05-23, 03:13
Does it include the Isle of Wight?
Phoenix
21-05-23, 07:50
Does it include the Isle of Wight?

Not sure what jurisdiction that was in. Ordinary parish records are not held at Winchester.
Merry
21-05-23, 08:10
I entered Wight in the Keywords box and it came back with 9,800 results.
Mary from Italy
21-05-23, 19:39
OK, thanks.