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The Common Room / Re: 1939 Register up and running
« on: Monday 02 November 15 18:11 GMT (UK)  »
Quote from: Mean_genie on Monday 02 November 15 17:49 GMT (UK)
The notifications of death 'D-codes' were noted in the part of the register we don't get to see - the right-hand page which has confidential medical information that can't be revealed. However, the D-code information was made available to FindMyPast, so that they could unlock the records that had been so annotated up to 1991. The changes of name, for any reason, and in a few cases corrections to dates of birth, are visible on the open pages because they involved crossing out something that was already there, and adding new information in its place. Sometimes you will see the date of a marriage or change of name, but not always. It's not going to be consistent because a lot of different people were making notes in the books over 50 years.

Thanks - that's what I wanted to know! So the dates of death notice (D-codes) are in the redacted right-hand part of the image. So for the present at least, if we need to know what it says, we still have to use the old system and put in an expensive paper request to the NHS. Botheration. Seems a bit unfair given that, once deceased, the Data Protection Act does not apply!

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The Common Room / Re: 1939 Register up and running
« on: Monday 02 November 15 17:00 GMT (UK)  »
Here's a question for Guy, or one of the other experts - why can't we see the date of death notice information that I thought (or perhaps I should say, hoped) would appear on the page as part of the visible entry?
When the NHS were originally persuaded to start giving out information from the register, this information was not released. But further campaigning resulted in the terms of the applications being amended so that (from 2010 onwards) - so long as you remembered to specify that that this information was wanted - it would be included as part of the data returned to applicants at no additional cost.
A friend of mine successfully received this additional piece of information as part of a 1939 register application, so it does exist.
I assumed that the entries in the register were being annotated with death notice dates as these became available - just as the women's names are annotated with their later married surnames. I hoped that this information would be visible on the pages available for us to download. However, I have just downloaded my first example, and there are no death dates to be seen.
 - Are they in one of the redacted columns to the right?
 - If not, what is in that redacted area?
 - If the dates of death notice (up to 1991) are not in the register, how have FindMyPast established who died?

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