Scotlandspeople Will

[Tom 23]

Hi

I've got a couple of questions on Wills, the first is one of my relations has two wills coming up with different reference numbers and as these costs 10 credits each is it worth spending 20 credits to see both, could the information in one be that different to justify getting both and one is almost a year after the other and his date of death (it is 100% the same person).

Also I have ordered a will and the handwriting is so bad it is virtually impossible to read it, this is not due to a bad copy of the original, just terrible terrible writing.
Does anyone know a way forward of helping with this, as it is frustrating to have used the credits for it and now not to be able to read it.

[ev]

Hi ,

Somtimes there are 2 references to the same person , one a will and one an inventory.
Not sure if that is the case here with being almost a year apart.
Do they have a description in the free index ?

This might provide a better explanation -
http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/help/index.aspx?407


Also see -
http://www.scottishhandwriting.com/


ev

[Forfarian]

Does anyone know a way forward of helping with this, as it is frustrating to have used the credits for it and now not to be able to read it.

Oh yes, I've been there too!

Why not post an extract from it on the RootsChat 'Deciphering and Recognition Help' forum and see what someone else makes of it?

As for the will - if one is a testament and the other is an inventory, go for the testament. If one is an eik, go for the other one. Inventories and eiks deal with what property and money the deceased left, but the testament is the document that tells you what they wanted to do with their property. Sometimes the inventory and testament are together in one document, and sometimes they are separate.

[Tom 23]

Thanks for the pointers. 

[carolineasb]

Just to add, Eiks are usually to amend something that was already in the Inventory or to add something that was missed from the original Inventory.  For instance, the Executor could have described the address of a house incorrectly on the Inventory or perhaps missed out a bank account or shares etc.