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Lucy  - many thanks. The renumbering you describe must be what I'm seeing.

Yes, I know of the method you reference to get the actual date of an event. In fact when I was teaching programming I used it as an example of the application of a binary search!

Slainte
Gordon

Hi

I often see NZ Birth, Death and Marriage registration numbers used as a rough indication of a date. For example, a marriage registration 1952/01927 is likely to be early in 1952, and death 1952/34893 likely to be late in 1952.

But there were, according to Statistics NZ, only 18897 deaths in NZ in 1952. So why the much higher registration number?

Does anyone know how these numbers work?

Slainte
Gordon

And for a nice vague question ....

I'm looking for information about the Duthie family of Tarves. I can get BMD and census information for them, but they were obviously both community-minded and hard working.

William Duthie appears in newspapers throughout the first half of the 20th century running the Tarves Parish Council, Tarves Literary Society and lots else. Adam Duthie's name is still attached to a firm of accountants located on Duthie Road, although it seems the firm itself no longer exists.

Which Duthie is Duthie Rd named for?
When did that happen?
Are there detailed obituaries of any of he family?
etc.

I'm really looking at the social history of the area, rather than simple dates and names genealogy. Any and all leads gratefully received!

Not much to go on!  If she married in 1905 then she was most likely at least 20 - born before 1885?  In 1945 she'd be about 60 at least. 

I assume she didn't remarry?

So even assuming that her name is recorded exactly as Annie - a brave assumption - there are still 23 deaths in Aberdeen, after 1945, aged more than 60.

And she may have moved of course - a long-term widow might move to be close to some of her family. I have one woman who lived in Daviot from birth until in her late 80s, when she moved to Edinburgh for family.

You're going to need more to go on. Newspaper family notices?

Many thanks for all that in-depth information Falkyrn.  It is most helpful.

Slainte
Gordon