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-Return to the [[Wiltshire Probate Records]] page.
 == Step By Step&nbsp;  ==
-. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will or administration (admon), writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.<br>2. Proceed to the "Probate Records of This Court" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire Record Office or,&nbsp;hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.<br>4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records;&nbsp;then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the&nbsp;original wills and admons also&nbsp;on microfilm via any&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers]&nbsp;near you.
+. First search each index (see below) to help you more quickly find the will or administration (admon), writing down each detail cited in the indexed entry.<br>2. Proceed to the "Probate Records of This Court" (below) to determine what original probate records exist for this court.<br>3. Contact or visit the Wiltshire Record Office or,&nbsp;hire a professional record searcher to view these records on your behalf. Officials may send upon request a list of record searchers.<br>4. Visit The Family History Library, or, one of its 4,500 satellite family history centers worldwide and search indexes to probate records;&nbsp;then with the information obtained from the index[es] you can search more quickly the&nbsp;original wills and admons also&nbsp;on microfilm via any&nbsp;[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/FHC/frameset_fhc.asp centers]&nbsp;near you.<br>
 == Indexes  ==
-== Records  ==
+==== Online Indexes  ====
+Here are&nbsp;two websites providing online indexes to Wiltshire Wills:
+*The Wiltshire County Record Office's [http://history.wiltshire.gov.uk/heritage/index.php online Will Index 1540-1858]
+*Genuki provides a gateway to these [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/BRKwills/ 1000 abstract Wills]
+==== Indexes in The Family History Library  ====
+*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Calendar of Wills, Acts &amp;&nbsp;Admons&nbsp;1557-1858]
+*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Index to Wills&nbsp;1557-1857]
+*[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Index to Wills 1557-1799]; [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts%2E%2C+calen++&first=101&last=200&columns=*,0,0 1800-1858]
+== The Records  ==
-==== Archive Locations  ====
+==== Archive Location  ====
 Wiltshire and Swindon Archives
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 Tel: 44 (0)1249 705500
-Fax: 44 (0)1249 705527
+Fax: 44 (0)1249 705527 [http://www.wshc.eu/about-wshc/archives.html Website]
+==== Probate&nbsp;Records of This Court Held in This Archive  ====
+Registered Wills 1557-1603; 1659-1662
+Original Wills &amp; Administrations &amp; Inventories 1587-1858
+==== Probate Records of This Court in The Family History Library  ====
-[http://www.wshc.eu/about-wshc/archives.html Website]
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts%2E%2C+calen++&first=1&last=100&columns=*,0,0 Registered Wills 1583-1661]
-==== Archive Records  ====
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=275110&disp=Archdeaconery+court+of+Wilts.%2C+calen++ Original Wills 1603-1857]
-==== Family History Library Records  ====
+[http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titlefilmnotes&columns=*%2C0%2C0&titleno=646318&disp=Court+records++ Act Books 1572-1620]
 == Jurisdictions  ==
-The Courts of the Archdeacons of Salisbury and of Wiltshire and also the Court of the Archdeacon of the sub-dean of Salisbury Cathedral were inhibited triennially by the Court of the Bishop of Salisbury.
+Held jurisdictions over most of the northern parishes in Wiltshire except in the smaller or "peculiar" courts. Inhibited triennially by the Consistory Court of Sarum.
 [[Category:Probate_records_in_Wiltshire]] [[Category:Wiltshire]]