• Ancestry.com Type "wills" into the surname field, over 20,000 answers are possible.
• Result of a search for Wills Family at Genealogy.com
• Scottish Wills Marriages 1716 - 1949 sorted by year
• OPR and Civil Birth, Marriage, and Death index records for the surname WILLS throughout Scotland
• Global Search New Ancestry World Tree

• A Wills family of Kingswear, Devon.
• Ancestors and descendants of members of a Wills Family who migrated to Australia from Lustleigh and other Devon towns.
• Harley Lloyd Wills, Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona.1902.
• George Wills, Bodmin, Cornwall, England, 1768
• Elmer Clifton Wills, Amelia County, Virginia. 1878
• Richard Wills born about 1558, Devon, England.
• An index of one Wills family from Devon, England. Decendants migrated to Canada, USA and Australia. Follow the "Next Page" links at the bottom of the pages as there are over 600 names in this list.
• Harley Lloyd Wills, Fort Thomas, Graham, Arizona, 1902
• Elmer & Suzie Wills Amelia County, Virginia,
• Wills Family - Cornwall 1711
• A New Zealand Family
• Reverend Joseph Harris Wills, Plymouth 1842
• David Robert Wills - Montrose(176x)/Edinburgh(1800s)/Dundee(1800s), Scotland to Detroit(1905), Michigan
• The Story of Pepperdon - An account of the history of Pepperdon and of the Wills families who lived there.

• The Message Board of the World Wide Wills Family History Center
• Wills Family - Australia
• Wills Family Genealogy Forum - United States
• Wills messages at Ancestry.com
• RootsWeb - Canada
• RootsWeb Message Board - Wills

• Family Reunions and Genealogy
• Family Reunion Organizer
• A Wills Families Get-to-Gether was held in Melbourne in March 2003 the results are at this link.

• Wills - Jones - Nickles Genealogy Page
• Associate Professor Craig E. Wills
• Tom Wills Anchor of Eyewitness News At 5, 6 & 11
• Wills Trucking, Inc.
• Mike Wills Learning Services
• Mark Wills.com
• In the Tracks of Burke and Wills
• Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys
• The son of D. Womack Wills @ the Wills Clan Stomping Grounds

It is not what you ask a search engine that gets results, it is the way that you ask it, especially in researching your family tree.

This search engine is set to search all of the Wills pages for any item of interest to you. Practise your web searching here, using the below guide-lines.

• It is essential to enter their name in this format "christian-name surname".
• Enter it in lower case with the christian name and the surname enclosed in inverted comers. "robert smith"
• This causes the search engine to only report any exact matches to the phrase. If you do not use the inverted comas the search engine will report any site with robert and smith in it but not necessarily as a persons name. The reference could be to robert Jones a silver smith.
• When you enter your query in lower case the search engine reports both upper and lower case matches.
• If the first search does not produce results that you require try alternative christian names e.g. for "robert smith" try "bob smith" or shortened forms such as bob, thos, ptk and wm in place of robert, thomas, patrick and william.
• Typing the family name followed by the word "genealogy" may turn up entire sites that are relevant to your family tree.
• If your receive a large number of URLs from your search, you need to provide more information to screen out sites that are not relevant. Firstly try adding australia and plus signs. The search would now be +"robert smith" +australia. If that does not succeed try the name of the town or suburb where this ancestor lived or worked. +"robert smith" +homebush.
• The plus sign instructs the search engine to only show results that contain both "robert smith" and australia. It is essential to enter the plus sign as the first entry as well as before each other item. This can be extended by adding further + or minus signs. +"robert smith" +homebush +doctor -melbourne -music
• This type of searching may need to be completed in several search engines.

We also had a problem in locating an ancestor's migration to Tasmania and then this letter arrived. "Raye had the brilliant idea that, because no-one could find anything about Charles Wills, she would look up Charles WELLS - and Voila! there he was!"

I was reminded of this when reading Megan Smolenyak's book titled "In Search of Our Ancestors" (ISBN: 1-58062-317-4). Page 116 reads "She remembered a Bible record that she had squirreled away. The record clearly showed that her Catherine Jane was a sister to our missing Susan (not Sarah, as it turned out)! The startling discovery, though, was that the sisters' maiden name was not Cone, but Love.

Now spurred on, we wrote for a photocopy of the original death certificate for our great-grandmother Hannah. Sure enough, on the original is "Love" written in fancy script. Someone mistook it for "Cone" and that is how it was transcribed for the printed record. Armed with this new information, we were finally able to uncover documented proof for several generations simply by looking for Love in all the right places!"

Then on page 210 we read "The records of William N. Jones had been accidentally blended into the file of William H. Jones. In the old handwriting, the middle initials "N" and "H" looked very similar, thus creating the problem that was to take us so long to solve."

A further page of Wills spellings is available at the Australian Wills Familes Index.

Email Tom Wills if you would like to share with us a spelling problem in your Wills family research.

• Glen Wills, Victoria, Australia
• Wills Memorial Building, Bristol, England.
• Wills Hall, Bristol, England.
• Wills Federal Electorate Melbourne, Australia
• Wills Town Mission Cemetery - Fort Payne, Dekalb, Alabama, USA
• Wills Point, Van Zandt County, Texas, USA
• Wills Memorial Hospital Washington, Georgia, USA
• Original Burke & Wills Tree Coopers Creek, Australia
• Glen Wills Cemetery