Hi Don Thanks for this - this seems to make some sense of the varied information (not to mention forenames) which the database contains. The 55% might be challenged by some of our figures - here are all my ROWBERRY variants with numbers from the database, followed by those I have extracted from the same year of the GRO death indexfor the same year: 2007 5 20 2008 4 16 2009 6 17 2010 11 23 2011 7 14 2012 9 29 As you can see in only one year does it approach anything like 55% ( 2011 = 50%). Note the similar Scottish and Northern Ireland Death Index 1989-2013 published the same day by Ancestry. Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "DonJGrant via" <goons@rootsweb.com> To: <goons@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2015 9:33 AM Subject: Re: [G] England and Wales, Death Index, 2007-2013 There is some information on the sources and coverage at http://www.irishgenealogynews.com/2015/01/source-information-for-ancestrys-n ew.html Don Grant Scoon ONS 5642