When we embarked on our project looking at the Early Emptages, we decided that we needed a way of grouping the early parish register entries for births, marriages and burials into families. We hoped that there would be enough information in the wills and testaments of our ancestors to help us.
We were delighted to find more wills than we had imagined and, though the olde English writing and language (in Latin for the very early wills) takes time to interpret and transcribe, we are making progress.