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Offline Millmoor

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Re: Post 1858 English wills website seems to be down
« Reply #18 on: Wednesday 09 February 22 14:41 GMT (UK) »
Once you have the page in 1906 with the will of interest click on " click to open image" . This should open a page with zoom controls at the top. Beside them is " show form" - click on that and the form you need to complete appears at the right of the screen. ( From what I have read on this and other threads in completing the form if there is no folio number you need to write nil or none for the form to be accepted).

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Re: Post 1858 English wills website seems to be down
« Reply #19 on: Wednesday 09 February 22 15:29 GMT (UK) »
Many thanks!  Order accepted.  (I just put a dash in the folio box, and that worked fine)

Not exactly user friendly, is it?  I shouldn't be in the position of thinking that it was better before.
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Re: Post 1858 English wills website seems to be down
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 22 February 22 10:09 GMT (UK) »
The probate site says it is having login problems.  After 15 days, I found that one of my two wills was marked in "My Orders" as ready to download.  However, when I tried to download it, I got a message saying that some of the information I provided is incomplete or incorrect and my request is returned as a no trace.  Unfortunately, no clue is given as to what was wrong, and a complete record of what I input is not provided.  Is that normal?

I thought I had provided all the necessary information: from memory, surname, given name, dates of death and probate, probate registry, folio number.

They say that to proceed I would have to submit a new order and pay a further fee, but I don't fancy that without knowing what was wrong the first time.

Is anything to be done?
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