2 million more records opened on the 1939 Register - Page 12 - Genealogists' Forum

Merry · #**111** 18-01-17, 16:26

To me the 'however' meant the record they were closing for you did not fit in to any of their a-d catagories, but on reflection it may not mean anything!

I am looking forward to your review!

kiterunner · #**112** 18-01-17, 16:40

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Originally Posted by Merry

To me the 'however' meant the record they were closing for you did not fit in to any of their a-d catagories, but on reflection it may not mean anything!

If so, I wish he had said what he thought was the reason for it being open then! I assumed it was a "d" as it was one of the 2 million.

Merry · #**113** 18-01-17, 18:47

Was it likely to be d)? Common name?

kiterunner · #**114** 18-01-17, 19:02

Common name, yes, and it didn't have her married name on the 1939 Register, so I suppose it could have matched against someone with the same dob who ended up with her original surname. But I suppose I was interpreting d to mean "incorrectly opened as a result of the process of matching the closed records against death records" rather than that there was an actual death record which it actually matched against, if you see what I mean. If only we had access to those post-2007 death indexes so we could check!

Merry · #**115** 18-01-17, 19:08

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If only we had access to those post-2007 death indexes so we could check!

I agree - so frustrating!

#**116** 19-01-17, 07:15

Well there is 55% on Ancestry 2007-2013

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60630

kiterunner · #**117** 19-01-17, 08:31

Thanks, Maggie, but those aren't taken from the GRO index.

Merry · #**118** 19-01-17, 09:33

Also, many of the entries in that later database don't have dob recorded.

Kit · #**119** 19-01-17, 10:32

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Originally Posted by Mary from Italy

You might like to send the details to the guy who does the Lost Cousins newsletter, which seems to have quite a wide circulation.

I left lost cousins many years ago as the guy who runs it was breaching his customers privacy at the time and posting about it. I contacted him and he was quite abusive and then used my details to find out what he could about me. He may say FMP are wrong but he wont mean it.

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Originally Posted by kiterunner

Thanks, Maggie, but those aren't taken from the GRO index.

Where do they come from?

kiterunner · #**120** 19-01-17, 11:44

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Originally Posted by Kit

Where do they come from?

Original data: GreyPower Deceased Data. compiled by Wilmington Millennium, West Yorkshire.

I found a blog post which says that "The data apparently comes from funeral directors and obituaries."

http://elizabethwalne.co.uk/blog/201...13-from-v.html