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Gosh - so it is !!!!!

Thank you Alan, I hadn't noticed that creep in ! ;-)

Dea x

Just checked for a couple of family members deaths, and they aren't there. Its not a complete index by any means.

Andy

That's news I hadn't seen that. But it doesn't seem to be complete

Wonder how they got the info as the gro said they weren't releasing it

Some deaths just have a post code and no page/volume reference

I guess they are not fully transcribed yet

Took a look for an aunt who died in Cornwall about 2007/ 8 aged 102 but she doesn't show

My one showed in 2012 so I guess it is just 'hit and miss' at the moment but at least a step forward.

Dea x

I think the hit and miss of these records indicates they are not obtained from the GRO.

probably from Famikysearch and other sources

DazedConfused
And where/how would Familysearch obtain the records?

see also

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1348843

•Birmingham Central Library
•Bridgend Local and Family History Centre
•City of Westminster Archives Centre
•Manchester City Library
•Newcastle City Library
•Plymouth Central Library
•The British Library

The above offices hold indexed of BDM up to 2013. they wont be released online by the direction of the GRO at the present time.

Treat with caution!!!

My mother died on 27/12/2012

Her date of birth was 02/07/1925

Her name was Joan - no middle name

I was the informant

SOMEHOW they have transcribed her as Ms Joan Cerys...spookily Cerys is my daughter's name - but there is absolutely nothing on the death certificate that would suggest this info!!!!!

The only way they have linked my mum and my daughter is by the announcement in the local paper!

I was looking at some of the Scottish ones.
They have definitely been taken from Obituaries and Findagrave and are linked as such.

Dad's on there and the information has come from the local paper

I'm with you HeyJudeB4Beatles, treat with care and caution.

Don';t you hate those who seek to dominate. Guess you would have to be a paying member to get full details.

Sappho

They are all index only - no images

Jude

Familysearch could be using the newly released probate reocrds!

I had seen this thread and had a sudden need for the new index :-)

first I had to hunt up the thread, and then go hunting for the index

for easy reference, it is here

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60630

... unfortunately the one I was looking for was not there ... but this could mean she is living still, perhaps in a nursing home ...

We didn't have to obtain probate when my mum died because the house was in my dad's name and the bank accounts were joint and the estate was below the limit.

The announcement in the local paper gave the date of her death and my dad's name and the first names of me, my husband and daughters. Somebody would have had to do a bit of detective work to get back to her date of birth....so not really getting it!

Jude

About England and Wales, Death Index, 2007-2013

This collection is a compiled index that covers approximately 55% of the total deaths that occured in this time period.

This index provides death details for people in England and Wales, specifically their name, gender, date of birth or age at death, date of death, and residence place at death. However, they do not include the General Register Office (GRO) reference information.