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|    Jenny M Benson to Tim Powys-Lybbe    |
|    Re: FindMyPast's 'UK Deaths (2007-2016)'    |
|    25 May 18 22:13:12    |
      From: NemoNews@hotmail.co.uk              On 25/05/2018 17:00, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:       > Peter Calver has today and kindly passed on that these death records for       > 2007 to 2016 have just been released onto FindMyPast's site. He       > explains that they are possibly only half of the actual deaths and that       > he has found errors or oddities in the data.       >       > I have gone through a few of the 71 known deaths I have identified on my       > records for this period.       >       > Various remarkable features:       > (a) We are given the precise death date       > (b) And we get the death place       > (c) We only get the birth year or nothing       > (d) We do NOT get the references for ordering from GRO.       >       > So I wonder where the date comes from?       >       > My guess is something close to the probate indices.       >       > Does anyone know what publicly available documents these might have come       > from?       >       No. But my mother's death in 2015 appears twice and the two entries are       very similar except that one gives her title as Ms and the other as Mrs       and the first gives only her year of birth, whereas the second gives her       full birth date.              --       Jenny M Benson              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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