Weekly Topic Challenge: Finding and using Probate records

Question

It has been a while since we had a Topic Challenge. Let's ask questions -- or share our prior work with self-answered questions -- about probate records. How can you find them? What pointers can they give to other records? What finding aids and research guides exist?

Please use the probate tag for new questions.

Next week we will tally up the results to see how we did.

We are running out of challenge topics so I encourage everyone to try to contribute a new one at Weekly Topic Challenge needs more Challenge Topics!

Answer 1

And the results are:

Top Questioner: vervet

• Accuracy of place of death recorded in the National Probate Calendar? asked Sep 15
• Identifying difficult words in 1651 will? asked Aug 28
• How to cite the National Probate Calendar? asked Aug 23
• Searching databases for ancestors with aliases? asked Aug 22

Top answerer: AdrianB38

• A: Accuracy of place of death recorded in the National Probate Calendar?
• A: How to cite the National Probate Calendar?

Thanks also to PolyGeo for his question:

• Finding wills/probate for printers of Brecon, Wales who died in 1794, 1820 and 1839? asked Aug 23

and to AntonyM, TomH for answers, plus everyone who left comments.

If you have a proto-answer left in comments, think about ways those could be turned into answers.

Thanks to all our community members who made contributions during the Probate Topic Challenge!