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 == Probate Indexes Online  ==
-Before looking for a will, you should search an index. <br>[http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php]
+Before looking for a will, you should search a probate index.<br>
-An index of wills and related documents covering Lancashire north of the Ribble, and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, 1748-1858.
+[http://www.uclan.ac.uk/ahss/education_social_sciences/history/probate_index.php Probate Index] related to documents covering Lancashire north of the Ribble, and parts of Cumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire, 1748-1858.
-An index of all surviving probate documents for the Western Deaneries of the Archdeaconry of Richmond, 1748-1858 has been prepared. The deaneries included are Amounderness, Copeland, Furness, Kendal and Lonsdale. <br>[http://www.originsnetwork.com/help/popup-aboutbo-yprex.htm http://www.originsnetwork.com/help/popup-aboutbo-yprex.htm]
+[http://www.originsnetwork.com/help/popup-aboutbo-ypec.htm York Peculiars Probate Index] covers over 25,000 wills proved in the fifty four peculiar courts of the Province of York in the five-hundred year period from 1383 to 1883.
-Prerogative &amp; Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index 1853-1858
+[http://www.originsnetwork.com/help/popup-aboutbo-yprex.htm Prerogative &amp; Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index 1842-1858]
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-Welcome to the new West Yorkshire Archive Service on-line catalogue.
-This catalogue contains brief summaries of all the collections held by the five offices within the West Yorkshire Archive Service. Some collections are also listed fully to item level. Please see the 'what's new in the catalogue' section for a summary of current listing projects and priorities.<br>Many probate records listed.
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-York Peculiars Probate Index 1383-1883
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 This index covers over 10,000 wills proved in the Prerogative &amp; Exchequer Courts of York in the period 1267 to 1500. Wills are one of the most important sources for the family historian, and the originals of all the wills indexed here are held at the Borthwick Institute for Archives. Copies of these wills can be ordered online, via the index.
 [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/#ProbateRecords http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/#ProbateRecords]
 Colin Blanshard Withers has produced a list of all known Indexes and Calendars relating to Yorkshire Probate. This is available in both MS Word format (.doc) and plain text format (.txt) from his site. <br>
 == Post-1857 Probate Records  ==