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Old 23-01-15, 12:04
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It's not newspaper death notices. My mother-in-law (2010) is there but not her husband and son (both 2007, same area) and her death didn't appear in any newspaper. My grandmother (2009) is there but not her brother and sister-in-law (both 2012 and again same area) although their deaths did all appear in local papers. Intriguing.
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Their answer on Facebook to someone's question about where the data came from was " unfortunately we have no further information regarding the exact various sources of the database at this time."

I presume they mean "we do not intend to tell you" rather than they don't know!
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Someone on Facebook suggested it may have come from this company but I don't know whether they are right:
http://www.wilmingtonmillennium.co.u...ions/halo.aspx

see this blog:
http://anglo-celtic-connections.blog...ish-death.html
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Well my dad who died in 2013 is listed, but they put the village where he had lived as his place of death instead of the city where he died in hospital. Mother in law died the same year and is not listed. both had death notices in the same newspaper.

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Ancestry have posted this on their Facebook page:

We have checked this with our content team and various sources refers to data sourced from funeral directors and obituary notices. The collection represents about 55% of all deaths so you may not find everyone you are looking for. The collection does not contain full postcodes so that only general areas are implied to help with your research. The source of this collection is GreyPower Deceased Data, compiled by Wilmington Millennium. It is our hope that this collection will be of enormous benefit to many of our members in their family history research.
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Ancestry have also stated the same on Twitter too but other users are saying that its from funeral directors and printed obituaries so far from complete coverage.
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Yes, it says funeral directors and obituaries and not complete in the quote I posted up from Facebook, Claire.
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This now goes up to 2017.
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And now up to 2018.
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And now up to 2019.
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