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[*Sandra*]

London, England, London Transport Staff Registers, 1863-1931 - This collection comprises registers of staff working within London's public transport system during the years 1863 unti l1931.

UK, City and County Directories, 1766 - 1946 - This database is a collection of directories for various areas of the United Kingdom from the 1700s to the 1900s.

England and Wales, Death Index, 2007-2015  - Get the facts on recently departed relatives from England and Wales in this index.

Scotland and Northern Ireland, Death Index, 1989-2015 - Get the facts on recently departed relatives from Scotland and Northern Ireland in this index

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Sandra

[KGarrad]

The England & Wales Death Index, 2007-2015 is far from comprehensive!
It is a compiled index from various sources, but NOT the GRO Indexes

It covers about 55% of the deaths during those years.

I seem to remember that it is compiled from newspaper obituaries?

[KGarrad]

The Scotland and Northern Ireland Death Index, 1989-2015 is similar.
It covers about 45% of the total deaths in this period.

[Ellenmai]

I have just had a look on the England & Wales Death Indexes for three people I know have died between 2007-2015 and not one of them are showing up, how disappointing.

[rosie99]

I wonder where the information does come from.   
I have a relative who died in 2015, she appears with her full names, age, plus death date and town where she died.  There was no obituary in the papers, she appears on the probate calendar but there is no age showing though they could have got the other info from there.

[KGarrad]

There was a thread on RootsChat when these records first came out? (Can't find it, though!)

As far as I can remember, the records came from:
Newspaper obituaries (print and online)
Undertaker's records
Probate Calendar?


Original data: GreyPower Deceased Data. compiled by Wilmington Millennium, West Yorkshire.

One of the products from Wilmington is Mortascreen and Halo "the UK's leading deceased data files used for direct mail suppression, mortality fraud and identity theft prevention".

The data apparently comes from funeral directors and obituaries. It is then packaged for marketing companies to ensure they don't contact the deceased.

[rosie99]

Thanks KG.  From that list I can only assume the undertaker has given the information.

Rosie 

[stanmapstone]

There was a thread on RootsChat when these records first came out? (Can't find it, though!)

See http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=765612.msg6174812#msg6174812

Stan

[rosie99]

Thank Stan 

Rosie