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How to find readable copies of English wills

January 22, 2024November 12, 2024 Lina GoldbergUnited KingdomLeave a Comment on How to find readable copies of English wills

If you’ve found an English will on Ancestry or the National Archives, you may struggle to read it. That’s because both sites have reduced the quality of the images substantially, presumably to save on bandwidth. Reduced from what? you may wonder. The open secret of the genealogy community is that…

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