Inaccuracies in online index to PCC wills

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Chris Phillips

Inaccuracies in online index to PCC wills

Legg inn av Chris Phillips » 21 okt 2005 12:27:46

It's worth noting that there are numerous inaccuracies in the online index
to wills proved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury:
http://www.documentsonline.nationalarch ... /wills.asp

The index appears to have been compiled newly from the manuscripts rather
than from the printed indexes published by the British Record Society and
others. In an ideal world, I'm sure this would be the right way to proceed,
but evidently the compilers of the index were not capable of reading the
testators' names accurately, so there are many mistakes - certainly for the
earlier period covered.

Wildcards can be used, which alleviates the problem to some extent, but some
of the errors are rather bizarre, and I'd suggest continuing to check the
printed indexes to ensure nothing is missing.

Chris Phillips

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