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Wills and probate — where to find them free

A will or an estate file names heirs, spouses and property, and fixes a death to a court date.

Public archives Provara searches for wills and probate

live Queensland State Archives indexes (Australia)

Queensland State Archives via data.qld.gov.au · AU

Immigration and passenger indexes, naturalisations, wills, inquests, hospital deaths, gaol registers, orphanages, Boer War — 12 of 128 CC BY indexes searched live

Licence: CC BY 4.0 · terms read 2026-09-06

not yet connected PROV Victoria Collection API (Australia)

Public Record Office Victoria · AU

Wills and probate, inquests, land, immigration indexes — keyless JSON API works

Licence: UNCONFIRMED for paid use · terms read 2026-09-06

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In Provara, ask Provara whether an ancestor left a will. With web search on, it searches this archive in one call, reads the best hits, and proposes only what the record it read supports — with the record beside the claim.

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Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.