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Title: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Hazelg on Saturday 28 March 09 19:06 GMT (UK)
I am looking for the death certificate of my aunt who died in 1940. I fill in all the fields - date of death, birth year, full name, parents' names, husband's name, but it still shows a nil return. What am I doing wrong?

Hazel
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: percy porter on Saturday 28 March 09 19:13 GMT (UK)
If you are searching BMD then you will find that dates beyond 1936/7 are yet to be transcribed.

Alan NZ
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: bearkat on Saturday 28 March 09 19:14 GMT (UK)
Which website are you using to search?

If it's freeBMD not all years have been indexed yet.

You can check coverage via this link:

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/progressD.shtml
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Keziahemm on Saturday 28 March 09 19:16 GMT (UK)

Where are you searching?  If FreeBMD then the indexes are not complete for c1920 onward.
To find an entry for 1940 you have to search quarter by quarter from the full GRO index.

To order from the GRO you only need name, quarter, district, page number.

Susan












Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: charlotteCH on Monday 30 March 09 05:19 BST (UK)
Hazel,
It sounds as if you need to go to a library that holds the fiche for death regs and search thru them , for each quarter of 1940.  That will give you the refernce numbers you need to order the cert.

Phone ahead and check the library nearest to you holds the fiche.

Good luck,
charlotte
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Hazelg on Monday 30 March 09 19:54 BST (UK)
Dear All
Thank you so much for your advice and knowledge - patience and perseverence are obviously the virtues required by the family tree historian.

Hazel
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: ukdescendant on Monday 30 March 09 22:27 BST (UK)
Hazel

If you give me her name and date of death I'll look on a subscription website and then you can order the cert online.

Rgds
UKD
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Hazelg on Monday 30 March 09 22:46 BST (UK)
Thanks UKD, that's very kind.
Dorothy Elizabeth Emily Larkin (nee Robins) 23.07.1940, aged 33.  I believe on the 1911 census she doesn't have the Elizabeth, but on the memorial card it is there.

Regards
Hazel
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Annie65115 on Monday 30 March 09 22:52 BST (UK)
q3, 1940: Dorothy EE Larkin  age 33  Westminster volume 1a, p675.

Order from GRO: http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ -- if you get stuck with the order page I'm sure someone here will help you out! - and if you put in the details as above, the certificate will cost £7.
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Hazelg on Monday 30 March 09 23:13 BST (UK)
Dear UKD
All done and surprisingly easy. Thank you for your very generous help - I  am now going to try and find the grave.

Regards
Hazel
Title: Re: What am I doing wrong?
Post by: Nick29 on Tuesday 31 March 09 08:01 BST (UK)
Quote from: Hazelg on Monday 30 March 09 19:54 BST (UK)
Dear All
Thank you so much for your advice and knowledge - patience and perseverence are obviously the virtues required by the family tree historian.

Hazel

Indeed, but part of the learning process in this great hobby is in knowing what you can find online, and how you can find it.  I spent a lot of time when I first started, searching on Ancestry for people born post-1920, and at the time I didn't realise that the data for the period ~1920-1983 isn't fully indexed on a computer database, and you have to find them by looking through the index pages by hand.  Luckily, there's always someone in these forums who is there to give a helping hand, and I'm very pleased to see that you have a result.