Locating Death Certificate for my Great Granny in 1960

[bella1987]

my Great Granny Mary Elizabeth Coppenhall formely Eaton was born in 1892 and died on the 10 July 1960 its taken me months to locate a death record with the volume and page number on
i went on GRO to search for the certificate in the hope of purchasing the digital image for £3.00
using the info i had from ancestry however GRO couldnt find a match. so i enquired why there were 27years missing from the GRO register and it was because the original transcriber quit before completing the transcribe. apparently they are working on finding a new transcribe who can continue where the last one left off and eventually get the digital or pdf versions online.
so if i want to see where my great granny died and who was with her at time of death, and what her cause of death was im going have to put in the details i have and purchase the full Certificate instead for £12.50 and then play the waiting game for it to arrive in the post.

[LizzieL]

That gap has been there a long time, does it take that long to recruit a new transcriber 

[Jebber]

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so if i want to see where my great granny died and who was with her at time of death, and what her cause of death was im going have to put in the details i have and purchase the full Certificate instead for £12.50 and then play the waiting game for it to arrive in the post.
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We should all be thankful that we can order the majority of certificates we want online whether digital, PDF or paper. At one time only paper certificates were available, in most cases it meant a trip to the Record Centre in London to search through heavy volumes to find the reference details  to enable us to order the certificates, then wait for them to arrive by post. That really made it expensive.

[rosie99]

That gap has been there a long time, does it take that long to recruit a new transcriber 

The money to pay for it to be transcribed could be the problem  .  We must be grateful for the information that is available easily and  cheaply for family historians as Jebber has mentioned 

[Tickettyboo]

Are there are older members of the family who may have a copy of this shoved away in a drawer somewhere? Its really worth asking older relatives first if possible  before spending out for certs etc.

I have a fair few 'issued at the time of registration' certs that were found in attics, sideboards, kitchen drawers etc of relatives who were older.
I also have  many, many more (quite a large box full) of ones that I paid for over many years prior to this recent digital/pdf facility (birth/deaths only for specific years).

Though I'd be thrilled if I'd got them for a lesser price, I don't regret the purchases at all. I got the info I wanted, I was able to go further in my research - well worth it in my book.

Boo

[cath151]

Hi,
 In case you don 't have it there is a long obituary for a Mrs M E Coppenhall of 19 New King Street, Middlewich in the Winsford Chronicle 23rd July 1960.
Lots of mourners and friends mentioned.
Available Findmypast or the BNA.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=m%20e%20coppenhall&retrievecountrycounts=false
If you register free on the BNA site you can get 3 free pages to view.
Cathy

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

Nobody is waiting for a transcriber, the DOVE project was halted years ago when partially completed along with cutbacks elsewhere as part of austerity measures.

 FOI release 29569

1.The project was suspended from August 2011 but had been in a pause status since September 2010.

2.Work on the Digitisation and Indexing project was in a pre-procurement stage at the point it was suspended. In terms of digitsation of records, Siemens were paid £8.33 million under the DOVE project,which represented payment only for the records actually digitised.

3.Current estimates (as of August 2012) for the completion of the digitisation project are £25-30 million. This includes the digitisation and indexing by the scanning and transcription of 133m civil registration records and the associated non-digitisation costs relating to image storage, system interfaces and development of the online ordering site.

[LizzieL]

Nobody is waiting for a transcriber, the DOVE project was halted years ago when partially completed along with cutbacks elsewhere as part of austerity measures.

Sounds like someone has been told porkies

[bella1987]

Hi,
 In case you don 't have it there is a long obituary for a Mrs M E Coppenhall of 19 New King Street, Middlewich in the Winsford Chronicle 23rd July 1960.
Lots of mourners and friends mentioned.
Available Findmypast or the BNA.
https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/search/results?basicsearch=m%20e%20coppenhall&retrievecountrycounts=false
If you register free on the BNA site you can get 3 free pages to view.
Cathy


Hi Cathy no i havent seen that thank you ive just gone on it and viewed it very imformative and alot of names on there i didnt know about so thank you.