Not a National of the German Reich
On Wednesday I was a bit excited to receive a nice thick package from the Royal BC Museum or British Columbia Archives. It was the will and probate for Edward Forfar. From when I placed the order online to receiving it in the post, it took about 2 weeks - how good is that? There was no less than 37 pages to sift through. In an ideal world I would have been able to go the Museum myself and look at what was in the file and pick and choose what I wanted copied. But the Museum is in Canada and I am in Australia. I am very grateful to the Museum staff for their quick and speedy attention to my request. The third page of the package contained a really interesting phrase which I hadn't seen in any family history documents before. The document was a sworn oath made by a solicitor basically saying that he was the solicitor for the executor of the estate and that he knew Edward Forfar. The last part of his oath reads as follows: ...