Welcome to the National Wills Index
Search our growing and unique set of indexes for pre-1858
English wills and probate documents.
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ABOUT THE COLLECTIONS ORDER ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS IMAGES AVAILABLE
Archdeaconry Court of London Wills Index  1700-1807  over 5,000 names  
British Record Society Probate Collection  1320-1858  over 2.3 million names Images available
Cheltenham Probate Abstracts  1660-1740  over 530 abstracts Images available
Gloucester Wills Index  1801-1858  over 14,190 names  
Hertfordshire Wills Index  1415-1857  over 27,600 names Order original documents
Kent Probate Indexes  1440-1857  over 55,800 wills & inventories ADDITIONAL RECORDS!  
Oxfordshire Wills Index  1516-1857 over 56,700 names
Prerogative & Exchequer Courts of York Probate Index  1688-1858  over 263,800 names Order original documentsImages available
Surrey & South London Will Abstracts  1470-1858  over 562,700 names
York Medieval Probate Index  1267-1500  over 10,000 wills Order original documents
York Peculiars Probate Index  1383-1883  over 25,000 wills Order original documents
About the National Wills Index
Origins.net has a growing and unique set of indexes to wills and other probate documents. Following exclusive agreements with the British Record Society - which has the largest set of indexes to English wills - and other organisations with major collections of source material, our database of probate records is about to grow very rapidly.
With the partication of these bodies, we have launched the National Wills Index, which will become the primary online resource for pre-1858 English probate material.
A hard copy service is offered initially for all the original documents, but work has started to make these available in digital image form.
Introduction to Wills
Genealogist Peter Christian explains why wills are so useful and how to find them. Read the article