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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: banjan on Saturday 06 September 08 14:12 BST (UK)
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ok Ihave a question probably with a very obvious answer and I'm just being thick
on a death index there are a couple of entries that could be relatives but I'm not sure is there any further info I can get from the registers? are the numbers in the last column Vol/page anything to do with it?
Hope someone can help
Jan
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Hi Jan,
You may find this site helps
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/research/investigatingyourfamilytree/index.asp
Stan
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thanks will try that
Jan
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The numbers can sometimes help - imagine each volume as a book of records, and each page in the volume has a set number of records included (I think normally 4 or 8). If you are looking for deaths that are quite close together (two children both died in the same epidemic), you would expect to find them on the same page or within a few pages.
If you have a fairly unusual surname and you see three people with the same surname on the death index with the same quarter/district/volume/page number, you might guess that something interesting was going on there!
Similarly, twins can be picked out by the fact that they normally have the same volume/page numbers.
Sadly, none of this helps you if you're looking for John Smith who died somewhere between the 1851 and 1861 censuses... :(
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I used to think I had an unusual surname "Dumble" but since I started digging into my history I've changed my mind and to make things even more fun most of my relatives had the same Christian names :'( the commenest being Thomas)
I half wish I'd just stuck to the info. I had been given and not gone chasing up other lanes
Thanks for help so for
Jan
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The birth and death registers have up to 10 entries on a page. Marriages have up to 4 entries per page to 1851, then from 1852 there are only 2.
There is a separate set of pages for each sub-district (births and deaths) and for each church or registrar (marriages), so quite a number of pages will have fewer that the maximum 10, 4 or 2 entries.
If you are really nerdy you can download from FreeBMD a whole quarter's refs for a district and sort them to see how this works in practice.
I think maybe I should get out more :-[
Mean_genie
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Mean_genie
Is this your next project? ::)
Lizzie