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|    Jenny M Benson to cecilia    |
|    Re: PCC wills through Ancestry    |
|    26 Jul 18 23:26:56    |
      From: nemonews@hotmail.co.uk              On 26-Jul-18 10:58 PM, cecilia wrote:       > (This is not of high importance to me - it's not "my" family, and I       > can work without it.)       >       > I have been accessing some PCC wills (1650-1850) fron the Isle of       > Wight in order to structure a family that is not "mine", in the hopes       > of avoiding confusion with same-surnamed people that are "mine".       >       > I am doing this through library access to ancestry.com       >       > I have battled through various mis-transcriptions (my favourite is       > Isle of Night) but have failed to identify in ancestry       >       > "John Rogers, Carrier of Newport Isle of Wight, Hampshire       > Date: 09 August 1653       > Reference: PROB 11/227/440"       >       > I've tried only entering Forename or Surname, wiith or wiithout       > probate date/year, but either get results that dont include the one I       > want or have tens of thoiusands of results.       >       > If any one has a ancestry subscription and time to play with it, and       > gets a positive result, I would appreciate knowning what combination       > of data works - then I can get the will myself.       >              John Roger       Probate Date 09 August 1653       Newport Suthton              is the transcription.              I searched on Forename John - exact and similar       Surname Rogers - exact and similar       Death Year 1653 - exact              and only got 4 results, of which the one above was the 4th.              --       Jenny M Benson       http://jennygenes.blogspot.co.uk/              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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