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Old 20-02-11, 22:23
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Brilliant I found 5 of OH's ancestors in St Pancras.

Well documented too, address and age.
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Old 23-02-11, 20:47
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Website Improvements!
Deceased Online is delighted to announce a range of improvements to the website, and to bring a new type of cemetery record to our database
Researching gets easier!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

We have added a comprehensive list of the questions we are most frequently asked by users, with answers to help you use the site better, and hints and tips to improve your searching. These are accessible from the new "Help/FAQs" top menu item. When you click the "Contact us" link on the bottom menu bar, you will be directed to the FAQs page first; but if you can't find an answer there, or you want to contact us for any other reason, you always have the option to email us.

Improved Search Results page

We have introduced several new features here:

You can now drop down a list of similar sounding surnames to select from.
You can now change the order in which results are displayed: Name of Deceased or Burial/Cremation Date. We are hoping to add further options soon.
You can now select the number of results to be displayed per page.
The Next/Previous page handling at the bottom of the page has been improved.
More explanation and examples

On the Burial/Cremation Register Summary page, against each type of further information available (register scan, computer record, grave details, photo, map) we've added an "about..." link. Click on this to display a page describing just what you can expect with this record type, giving you all the information you need before making a purchase.

Re-viewing period extended

The period during which you can view documents after initially purchasing access to them has been extended from 28 days to 6 months!

Collections - a new type of data and a new way of searching!

Deceased Online is delighted to announce that the website is now able to host a completely new type of data -- collections. These are what they say, collections of records, but ones that don't fit into our usual method of searching, because they are not necessarily indexable in the same way, and are sometimes best searched by browsing.

Collections are primarily offered to Deceased Online by independent parties (not burial or cremation authorities) such as researchers compiling, photographing and/or transcribing lists of old records, or cemetery memorials for example. Access to such collections may be purely by purchasing the whole collection and browsing; but in some cases searching by deceased's name and date is also available.

As our first such contributor we are delighted to welcome Scottish Monumental Inscriptions , who are initially putting onto Deceased Online all of their 90,000 headstone and memorial photographs and searchable transcriptions. These date from 1566 and are from 150 cemeteries across Scotland.

For more details see the Help page entry on Collections under Searching, or click here.


https://www.deceasedonline.com/servl...ext=20110221_1
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Old 18-04-11, 21:26
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Default Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire records - Deceased Online

Two areas in the county of Hertfordshire (just north of Greater London)
head a list new regions now on www.deceasedonline.com

* Broxbourne Borough Council has provided 40,000 burial records for award-winning Cheshunt Cemetery (1855-2003, UK Cemetery of the Year 2005) and Ware Road Cemetery, Hoddesdon (1883-2003)
* Dacorum Borough Council provides nearly 30,000 burial records. The areas are Heath Lane Cemetery (1878-2010) and Woodwells Cemetery (1960-2010) in Hemel Hempstead; Tring Cemetery (1894-2010); and Kingshill Cemetery, Berkhamsted (1947-2010)

More records for Cambridgeshire too...

* Records for the county of Cambridgeshire are further enhanced with the addition of 1,900 records for Sawston Cemetery from the local Parish Council
* There are already 175,000 burial and cremation records for the City of Cambridge on www.deceasedonline.com

Coming soon...

* Many more records for Scottish areas
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Old 19-04-11, 20:59
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Thanks for the heads up Elizabeth.

I've just found a cousin of my great grandfather & his wife at Cheshunt Cemetery.
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Old 19-04-11, 22:02
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Jay, that's great!

I'm just amazed at how many resources there are now. When I started my research there were only a few.
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Old 22-04-11, 16:50
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It's amazing, Elizabeth.

I remember when I got going, there were only two censuses available on Ancestry, hardly any parish records - and certainly the idea you could see a digitised image of an original register was beyond imagining.

The familysearch site just had a transcript of 1881 and a lot of records which were often guesswork.
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Old 17-05-11, 20:32
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"Over 36,000 burial records from seven cemeteries in the County of Wiltshire head a range of new data for Southwest England now available on Deceased Online. The cemeteries are: Bradford-on-Avon, Hilperton (near Trowbridge), Holt (near Bradford-on-Avon), Melksham, Trowbridge*, Warminster and Westbury, with records back to 1856 and all including burial register scans as well as grave details.
With the addition of Cullompton the Deceased Online database now features two town cemeteries in the County of Devon. 6,600 new records, with register scans and grave details for all burials back to 1856, are now available. Nearby, the coastal town of Salcombe has also made its cemetery's 3,000 records available, and these date back to 1879.
Completing the dataset for Southwest England is Blandford Forum in the County of Dorset. For this cemetery we have 7,600 records, with register scans and grave details back to 1856.
We hope to be adding many more records for the Southwest of England soon. Check out the Database Coverage section at www.deceasedonline.com to find out more details of the above and many more towns and areas in the UK.

*Note: records for Trowbridge Cemetery are currently in process and will be added very shortly."

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Old 20-05-11, 19:30
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From their newsletter:-

"40,000 more Scottish burial records including Peterhead added to Deceased Online

Two Aberdeenshire coastal town cemeteries and a small
Aberdeen City graveyard added to growing
Scottish burial database

Nearly 19,000 records commencing 1869 for Constitution Hill Cemetery in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire are immediately available on www.deceasedonline.com. The records include digital scans of mortality registers which are rich in detail and include full names, designations of heads of families, occupations, causes of death, places of death, addresses, ages and grave references.
Over 16,000 records, dating back to 1615, for a second Peterhead cemetery, St Peter's Churchyard, are currently being worked on and will be completed and uploaded onto Deceased Online shortly.
The database for the City of Aberdeen has also been increased with the addition of nearly 4,500 records for the small John Knox graveyard. The records are for the period 1838 to 1894 and have been transcribed from Doric language grave diggers' registers and include various spelling inconsistencies (Click here to see the full write up on Deceased Online).
Deceased Online will be adding many more records for other Scottish regions soon. "
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Old 10-06-11, 19:37
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Default Essex, Romford Records - Deceased Online

39,000+ records for Romford Cemetery
added to www.deceasedonline.com

Historic Essex town's burial records date back to 1871

* All 39,400 burial records for Romford Cemetery are now available on the Deceased Online website.
* Digitised burial register scans for the period 27 October 1871 to 15 August 1994, and computerised records thereafter, include a range of details such as description of occupation and/or marital status, age, place of death and grave number.
* Grave details for all interments are also available.
* Romford Cemetery is managed by the London Borough of Havering and joins Hornchurch, Rainham and Upminster cemeteries which have all their records on www.deceasedonline.com
* Deceased Online now has well over 1 million burial and cremation records for the Greater London area and this will increase by a further 200,000 over the next few months.
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Old 11-06-11, 10:14
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Woo Hoo!! Most of OH's mother's family are from Romford..... Off to take a look.
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