What am I doing wrong?

[Hazelg]

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

[percy porter]

If you are searching BMD then you will find that dates beyond 1936/7 are yet to be transcribed.

Alan NZ

[bearkat]

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

[Keziahemm]

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

[charlotteCH]

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

[Hazelg]

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

[ukdescendant]

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

[Hazelg]

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

[Annie65115]

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.