NAME

Genealogy::Wills - Lookup in a database of wills

VERSION

Version 0.06

SYNOPSIS

# See https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/genealogy/wills.html
use Genealogy::Wills;
my $wills = Genealogy::Wills->new();
# ...

SUBROUTINES/METHODS

new

Creates a Genealogy::Wills object.

Takes two optional arguments which can be hash, hash-ref or key-value pairs.

directory

That is the directory containing obituaries.sql. If not given, the use the module's data directory.

logger

An object to send log messages to

Last (last name) is a mandatory parameter.

Return a list of hash references in list context, or a hash reference in scalar context.

Each record includes a formatted url field.

my $wills = Genealogy::Wills->new();

# Returns an array of hashrefs
my @smiths = $wills->search(last => 'Smith');	# You must at least define the last name to search for

print $smiths[0]->{'first'}, "\n";

AUTHOR

Nigel Horne, <njh at bandsman.co.uk>

BUGS

SEE ALSO

The Kent Wills Transcript, https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~mrawson/genealogy/wills.html

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Genealogy::Wills

You can also look for information at:

LICENSE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2023-2025 Nigel Horne.

This program is released under the following licence: GPL2