From: richard@ex-parrot.com
On 12/06/18 04:10, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> In message , Ruth Wilson
> writes:
>> On 10/06/2018 21:57, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
> []
>>> date of the change; and details of people who were born less than 100
>>> years before the date you look at it blanked out (e. g. dated after
>>> 1918-6-10).
>>> They remove the blanking if someone convinces them that the person
>>> is no longer alive; when it was only FindMyPast that offered this
>>> record, that was by for example emailing FMP a copy of the death
>>> certificate; I'm not sure now.
>>>
>> I have found a few anomalies. For example, my husband's aunt - still
>> very much alive - has her details visible, whereas his uncle -
>
> Is she over 100?
I can't comment about Ruth's aunt, but my aunt, who is also still very
much alive, is listed on the 1939 register with her details visible.
She's in her early 80s, her date of birth is correct and written clearly
on the register, and has been transcribed correctly by FMP. On the same
page are six other records with visible details for people born after
1918, and a further eight closed records. I have no idea whether any of
those other six people are still living, but I find it hard to believe
that all of those records have been opened by a researcher providing FMP
with their death certificate. Perhaps one may have been, but all six
hardly seems credible. So evidently there is some other process causing
records to be opened. Do they attempt to match death records from the
GRO index automatically, perhaps? Is so, perhaps my aunt's record has
been incorrectly matched? That's easy to believe as her name is an
exceedingly common one: five other children were born in the same
quarter with the same first name, middle initial and surname as her, one
within ten miles of where my aunt was born. Does Ruth's aunt also have
a common name?
Richard
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