Letters

ACCESSING WILLS

Regarding Anthony Morgan’s letter ‘We need to keep recent wills private’ in the February issue, most wills are in effect public documents so far as I am aware. It should be noted that the GOV.UK ‘Find a will’ website (probatesearch.service.gov. uk/#wills) covers England and Wales only. As the site points out, “There’s a different process in Scotland and Northern Ireland.” The National Records of Scotland site (nrscotland.gov. uk) only covers accessibility to wills and testaments in Scotland up to 1999. Jim Adamson, by email

THE THIN END OF THE WEDGE

Regarding the March issue’s news story on The National Archives’ trial for ordering documents, I think we should be worried as researchers over what TNA is doing. At a User Advisory Group on 3 December 2019 () “TG advised that the changes will be introduced as a pilot from March 2020 as part