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Wills and
Letters of Administration
Once the
date of a death of an ancestor has been discovered, it
is worth finding out whether they left a will. Since
many of the wills that you are likely to consult are
held in
PRONI
it would be best to begin by reading the
PRONI Information Leaflet
Wills and Testamentary
Records.
PRONI are currently engaged in
a project to index and digitise all the early wills
that were proved in the District Probate Registries
of Armagh, Belfast and Londonderry from 1858 to
c.1900. The first phase of this project has provided
a fully searchable index to the will calendar
entries for these three District Probate Registries
with the facility to view the entire will calendar
entry for each successful search. The second phase
will link the index entries to the transcripts of
the wills.
Click here
for access to the wills section of the
PRONI website.
UHF also
have databases of indexes of wills. Those relevant
to Co. Londonderry are listed in the table below.
Note, however, these databases are only accessible to members of the
UHF.
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