Genealogy Chat

Does it help? - no it b****y doesn't! Just makes things even more complicated - as if that were possible. Ever get the feeling that something is 'staring you in the face' but you just can't see it? M. Steer

What did you want it to say? that it doesnt

Was hoping that the 'Informant' would give me 'a lead'. M. Steer

well I have two death certificates and they give me quite a lot...Where they died and who was there and an address and mine give mewho her hubby was Have you tried googleing anything thats on there?

I have a lot more than two Death Certificates. Not one of them tells me 'who was there'. M. Steer

Margaret You have been unlucky then - nearly all my death certs have been registered by someone who was 'present at the death' OC

Margaret I know how you feel.... After a wonderful run of 'luck' with death certs... Even a wrong one I ordered turned out to be a child who had been born and died between censues but his Grandfather (the man I was actually looking for!!!) registered the death.....I have had several certs for various ancestors that 'could' be mine. The details all fit.... name, age (give or take a year or two), occupations (where given), and area. However the informants are Workhouse Superintants, Neighbours, Nurses et al...Anyone but a relative :( Chris

O.C., and Chris, I must be in a particularly bad mood today. I have an informant who was 'present at death'. I don' know, though, 'who was there'. I'm afraid that I've taken umbrage (rightly or wrongly) at an earlier reply. My apologies as and where necessary. M. Steer

Sorry, Like reggie I have a section that says who was present at death...usuall a family member. Sorry to up-set you

Do you know I thought you was a newbie ....my mistake, thats why I asked what you thought it might say. I have PMd you

Hi Margaret, I know exactly how you feel. I received my g-g-grandfathers death cert this morning and it might as well have been written in a foreign language for all the good it's done me. At least you know you're not alone, perhaps we should go outside and scream lol. Caz

Sometimes they can be a wealth of info, but it is always the ones that are a bit of a mystery and you are praying for a relative to be there at the death and register it that come back with the workhouse superintendant registering the death or a neighbour etc. I was pinning all my hopes on my GGG grans death cert to give me some sort of info that I didn't already know BUT no of course she died in the workhouse!!!

My thanks and apologies (where necessary) to all. I think I may have missed one or two messages when GR were doing 'Maintenance'. M. Steer