help on how to find a death

[*sara*]

Hi

I am trying to find a death record - I want to search throught the index of records myself on ancestry but don't seem to be able to find any indexes for after 1983, The death I am looking for is in the late 1980's or earlt 1990's I believe..


Can anyone advice me where I can look, I don't understand why it says death records upto 2005, but I can only see up to 1983??

thanks

[rosie99]

Hi
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=7579
The browse facility on the right hand side appears to go up to 1983 but I have just tried the search on the left of the page surname Smith year 2005 and that is working 

[*sara*]

thanks, I have just tried that but what I was is to trawl through the original index lists myself, but I can't seem to do this after 1983?

[rosie99]

It does not look as though you can browse the lists after 1983. You would probably have to go somewhere that you could look at them on fiche.

Rosie

[*sara*]

thanks rosie

I did suspect that but was quite surprised.

would that be a local recored office or further afield like TNA?

[KGarrad]

See this webpage for info:
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Governmentcitizensandrights/Registeringlifeevents/Familyhistoryandresearch/DG_175464

Essentially, the full indexes can only be seen at:
    Birmingham Central Library
    Bridgend Reference and Information Library
    City of Westminster Archives Centre
    Manchester City Library
    Newcastle City Library
    Plymouth Central Library
    The British Library

You may be lucky in that your local library will have copies of the inddex?

[dawnsh]

Hi

Find My Past quote this

"The birth, marriage and death records from 1984 onwards were recorded in a computer database only so there is no original image for records post-1984. "

Not quite true as the microfiche do exist at the listed archives, it's just that they haven't been digitised. But the record you are looking for should be found quite easily by using either Ancestry's of FindMyPast's search engine, unless the name you are looking for could be one of many variant spellings.

Dawn

[rosie99]

Looking at Sara's next post I think she has solved her problem - a mistranscription on the index 

[*sara*]

thanks everyone for your input, I did not see the transcriptions but I found the death I was looking for under Ainsle instead of Ainslie!!