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Old 22-01-15, 19:33
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Default 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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Old 22-01-15, 20:14
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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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Old 22-01-15, 21:37
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Every person I've looked for so far doesn't appear.
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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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I searched for a surname & only got one result. Searched again & got 48 so guess it's being a little temperamental lol
lol! At one point I'd accidentally left 2008 in the year of death box, so I thought I'd solved the problem by removing the date and starting again. I looked for my father-in-law (2009), our neighbour (2009), a cousin, (2010), two famous people (2010) and a friend (2008) and only the neighbour appeared.
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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

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This database is a searchable, digitized version of the indices of civil registrations in England and Wales, reported quarterly to the General Register Office (GRO) in London.
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This index provides death details for people in England and Wales, specifically their name, gender, date of birth or age at death, date of death, and residence place at death.
I have not been able to work out why about half the likely entries don't appear. For my missing people there are always others for the same month, part of the alphabet and reg district.
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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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