England and Wales Death index to 2013 - ancestry
Ancestry now showing the England and Wales death index from 2007 - 2013, and the Scotland and Northern Ireland death index from 1989 - 2013
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Ooh, that's interesting. Wonder whether FMP will have it tomorrow? I will start a new thread about the Scotland and Northern Ireland one so people see what it is in the title.
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I searched for a surname & only got one result. Searched again & got 48 so guess it's being a little temperamental lol
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Hmm, ancestry say "Original data: British Death Indexes. Various sources." Not giving much away there! I don't think it is complete, anyway.
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Eng/Wales death numbers from Ancestry databases pre and post 2007:
2004: 569,715 2005: 568,386 2006: 551,777 2007: 151,747 (old database) 2007: 176,520 (new database) 2007: 328,267 (total for year) 2008: 256,833 2009: 264,650 2010: 250,492 2011: 229,244 2012: 181,351 2013: 131,363 The description for the earlier database begins with: Quote:
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I presume they put it together from other sources which don't cover all deaths.
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Well yes, but I can't think what those sources would be.
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Newspaper death notices?
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