Graham Ward<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://lor.sh/@genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genchat@lor.sh</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/genchat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>genchat@a.gup.pe</span></a></span> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/genchat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genchat</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/wills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>wills</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.green/tags/probate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>probate</span></a> One thing we could be better at doing is sharing the names of all the people we find in a will. Beneficiaries are not generally indexed, but imagine if you could search a probate archive like that. Some societies have done some excellent work on this e.g. Oxfordshire FHS, see an example here: <a href="http://wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">wills.oxfordshirefhs.org.uk/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>