Peter, I am a bit puzzled how some years can lose so many deaths?........Are you in a position to know the answer to this question? Ian ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Dauncey" <peter@dauncey54.freeserve.co.uk> To: <FREEBMD-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 4:01 AM Subject: Latest update > > > The latest update shows an increase of 1,197,015 in the number of unique > records. > > There are 330,487 more Births. There are 4 years with increases over 20K: > 1889 (90,239); 1890 (58,949); 1907 (36,702) and 1848 (21,382) > > There are 88,314 more Marriages. There are 2 years with increases over 15K: > 1875 (23,799) and 1897 (19,441) > > There are 778,214 more Deaths. The big increases are for 1884 (279,126) and > 1882 (195,133), but there are 7 other years with increases over 20K: > 1881 (93,730); 1885 (51,478); 1858 (36,065); 1888 (34,278); 1857 (31,630); > 1841 (24,335) and 1855 (23,153) > There are also a number of years where the numbers have decreased > significantly. The major one is 1875, which had 111,825 Deaths in the > previous update and now has 56,255. Over 100 other years have lost hundreds > of Deaths, and for the post 1902 years, this frequently means a reduction of > over 50%. > > Happy searching/transcribing > Peter Dauncey > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >