England/Wales Death index 1989-2019 on Ancestry.

[Margarett]

Beware of using this! My late Mother's death entry reads that she died on 3 September 2017. (03/09/2017). She didn't. She died on 9th March 2017, (09/03/2017). If they have all been transcribed like this, they will all be wrong.

[carol8353]

Most records on Ancestry will be transcribed in the American format,it's an American company.

[Girl Guide]

Yes, the American way of using dates can be confusing.  It's obvious if you have a date like 12/31/2017 as there aren't 31 months in the year.

It's when you have single figure months that it can get confusing.  Caught me out a few times until I realised how the Americans wrote their dates.

[Margarett]

It hasn't been reproduced in the American way, it actually says 3 September 2017!!! In words and figures!

[Girl Guide]

I wonder if someone transcribing it seeing it as figures only, thought oh that's the American way of doing dates and then wrote it in the English way. 

[rosie99]

The entries for that year are from sources other than the GRO index so date can be sourced from anywhere and sometimes incorrect.

[Girl Guide]

The GRO don't do that.  I just checked my mother's details and all they give is year of birth and no exact date of death, just the quarter/year and area.

[Margarett]

I don't think it's been transcribed by a human, Wilmington Millenium appears to be a data company.

[Girl Guide]

I wonder where the company get this information from?  It seems it's not being correctly done.