1837online help please

[mmjones]

Hello Listers,

Could someone tell me the way 1837online searches are done? Is it by name only then do you have to pay to view the age at death and the place to verify it is the right one? or is it searchable by both place and name? Thank you for any help.

Regards,

Lynn

[casalguidi]

Hi Lynn

It is searchable by name only - you have to see the page to get the age, registration district and reference number - 1 credit.  I think you get 55 credits for £5.

It is a national index and there are four quarters for each year - unless it is a very uncommon name, there will usually be a page for each quarter for you to view.

Each view (1 credit) will show you the actual index page which has the name, registration district, age after 1866 and reference number - deaths.  Date of birth is in the death indexes from 1969.

Does that help?

Casalguidi

[mmjones]

Casalguidi,

I would like to ask someone to search for a death record for William Jones in 1956 and 1957 who has extra credits on 1837online and I was wondering if this would be a reasonable request or not?

Lynn   

[casalguidi]

Hi Lynn

Often people have odd credits left and don't mind doing a small search.  If you are pretty certain that you know when/where he died and how old he was at the time then it might be worthwhile posting a request on the Census & Resource Lookup Requests Board that you can find via the home page.

I suppose it might depend upon how many William JONES entries there are as to whether somebody will wish to search for him.

Best wishes

Casalguidi