Hello
Our ancestors names may be hidden within a Volume or File (of that Catalogue Reference) itself and therefore not appear in the search return, which quite often only gives the File or Volume Title.
Some TNA Volumes and Files are already scanned, name indexed and searchable on subscription sites.
Names contained within TNA Files and Volumes (not indexed by name and not on Subscription sites) but digitised by TNA, Kew, some can be searched through page by page for names.
Sometimes ancestors might appear in certain records and sometimes they don't.
Usually the first part of TNA Catalogue Reference denotes the record Reference and often the Government Department or Service creating the file.
Inland Revenue (ref IR) Will Abstracts catalogued on Discovery by NameIf your Ancestors left a Will Registered with an English Probate Registry and assessed for Duty between late 1790s and circa 1820.
Then an Abstract of the Will usually with Executors and Beneficiaries named might be useful (these are not the full Will copies available from a Probate Registry).
They are in the 'Inland Revenue' record series "IR 26"
Try your own surname in the "Exact word or phrase" box AND enter "IR 26" in the "Any of these references" box on the
Advanced Search page, to bring up these particular former Inland Revenue records.
Make sure you leave a one space gap between IR and 26
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/advanced-searchA search example of HOOD under IR 26 should give these 16 results covering a 20 year period approx (the other years got destroyed in a fire) ...
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/results/r?_ep=Hood&_cr=IR%2026&_dss=range&_ro=any&_st=advMark