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Topic: Illegible death certificate - HELP (Read 810 times)
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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We have a death certificate from 1891 which we cannot decipher. We want to know the cause of death but the writing is faded and even with enlargement is still unreadable. Do any of your clever people have any ideas as to how we can improve this?
Very grateful for any help,
Regards, Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Tees
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1454
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Hi Abiam,
Do try inverting the colours--it will show black background and white writing instead.
Hope it can help you to read it slightly better.
Or you can ring the local register office to ask if they could kindly read the cause of death to you after you gave all the details just to show that you do know this person. I am sure they will be more than happy to accommodate with your request.
Kind regards,
Tees
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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Thanks for that - I'll try it before I try ringing them.
I know these people are doing a great job to help us tree searchers but it does seem rather unfair to pay seven pounds for something unreadable.
Does anyone think that maybe a category system would be fairer? ie. A) Perfectly clear B) Readable C) Poor and then the purchaser could decide whether or not to proceed.
Any thoughts?
Regards, Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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Thanks Suey,
This bad! I've making it into a negative without success so will phone them on Monday. Watch this space!
Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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Have just tried to post a document and have amessage come up saying it's already posted! But itĄs not there. What have I done wrong? Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Koromo
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1913
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Hi
You may have used a file name for your document that someone else on RootsChat has used already. Try renaming your document/file and post it again.
Good luck! 
Cheers
Koromo
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Census information is Crown copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk________________________________________________________________ Stallworthy: Bucks | Samoa | NZ Brothers: Nottingham | NZ Lewis: Abergavenny | NZ Woolston: Oundle | Tahiti Darling: Dunbar | Tahiti Keat: Cornwall | NZ Bowles: Deal | NZ Coaney: Bucks Jones: Brecon  |
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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Hi Koromo,
Trying again!
(*) Moderator Comment: Sorry, but I've tried resizing the image, and it it really is impossible to make out anything. Try for a better copy, as suggested above
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« Last Edit: Saturday 28 April 07 17:29 UTC (UK) by Berlin-Bob »
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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Well, I suceeded in getting the certificate on the site. But I don't expect anything to come from it! It will have to be a phone call on Monday!
Thanks for your help, Abiam.
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Koromo
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1913
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LOL! That is seriously illegible!
Could you scan the cause of death section at a higher resolution, eg. 600 dpi and post it with yet another different filename? (I'd recommend that you don't attempt to enlarge it or tweak it in anyway.) There might be enough detail to see something.
Cheers
Koromo
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Census information is Crown copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk________________________________________________________________ Stallworthy: Bucks | Samoa | NZ Brothers: Nottingham | NZ Lewis: Abergavenny | NZ Woolston: Oundle | Tahiti Darling: Dunbar | Tahiti Keat: Cornwall | NZ Bowles: Deal | NZ Coaney: Bucks Jones: Brecon |
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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have tried to add a picture to my profile - just want to see if it worked - after my success with the death cert.
Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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Trying again!
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Abiam
RootsChat Aristocrat
Posts: 1416
Christmas Day2009
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Thanks Tati. I think I'll forget adding a pic for a while!
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOPSON/DOBSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, WATTS Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Hatley St George,Cambs/Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks,
EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, Fawley, Bray, Binfield Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Les de B
RootsChat Veteran
Posts: 870
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Its been a while since you posted this message, however, I recently received a copy of an English Death Certificate where I could not read the Cause of Death due to the faintness of the copy. Living in Australia, I could not ring GRO, so I emailed them quoting the references of the Death Certificate and informing them that the quality of the copy was so poor I could not read the Cause of Death. I requested could they read the original certificate to see if that was any better? They replied shortly thereafter indicating that they had read the original, and gave me the cause of the death. With the reply they also attached an enlarged version of the original cause of death.
You could try that option?
Regards
Les
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