Hi All,
I watched a program called Heir Hunters. This involves companies looking for
heirs to money held by the government. Normally when there are no obvious
relatives.
One women who died in a home stated she was 30 years younger than she
actually was!!!!!!!!!! Consequently her death cert had the wrong DOB.
Liz
----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony M. Carter" <ACarter(a)health.sdu.dk>
To: <catley(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 25, 2009 2:06 PM
Subject: Re: [CATLEY] UK GRO/PRO death info
Dear All,
I just checked the DirectGov web site. As I suspected, the only document
REQUIRED is a medical certificate of the cause of death. A birth
certificate is desired "if available," although"You'll need to tell
the
registrar" the person's date and place of birth. There is room for error
here and I disagree that the date on the death certificate is necessarily
reliable. Quite possibly the day and month were known but one could
envisage many reasons why the correct year was not. I can reel my parents'
birthdays off without hesitation but have to think hard about the year -
both fall in the interval Tim mentions.
No doubt you know that when starting the other way round, with the birth,
the mother's maiden name is available and Ancestry has transcribed the
records from 1916 making it possible to search by two surnames.
Anthony
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From: catley-bounces(a)rootsweb.com on behalf of Tim Cattley
Sent: Tue 25-08-2009 10:53
To: catley @rootsweb
Subject: [CATLEY] UK GRO/PRO death info
Chris/David/Anthony/Liz,
I would like your thoughts/advice on the following please because you have
probably already come across the same thing and come to some conclusion :-
You will already know that certain batches of death records do not show
the age of the deceased but give their full d.o.b. instead, which is a lot
more helpful.
However, one would expect that where a specific date of birth is given on
the death record, that it would match up with the corresponding birth
record for that person, however, it looks to me as if around 25% of the
male Catley's shown do not have a corresponding birth record at all!
This becomes very obvious when looking at the 1970's death PRO lists which
encompass individuals born around the 1890 to 1920.
When I first came across this anomaly, thought that maybe it was because
the person was born abroad but there seem to be just too many instances
for this to be a realistic explanation.
Logic tells me to act on the death information re birth and add the
individual to my birth list with an annotation as to how d.o.b was
obtained (ie not from GRO birth source) so as not to confuse the
situation.
What should I do?
Tim
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