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    1. Re: [SFHG] Ancestry: Death Indexes 2007 to 2013
    2. Marion Woolgar via
    3. One of my husband's close relatives died in 2013. In the Ancestry entry, her date of death is correct. However, her birth year is obviously calculated using her age at death, because it is shown as 1916, when it was actually 1915; she has been given the title of "MS" (which she hated) and titles are never given in GRO indexes; her residence when she died is "Worthing, Norfolk, England" although she lived in Worthing, West Sussex; and there is a partial post code BN11 that was accurate. There is a Worthing in Norfolk, but not one with a BN11 postcode. The date of death might have been extracted from the probate registry web site; but the rest of the information must have come from somewhere else. I wondered if it might have been collected from her death notice in the local newspaper, as that gave her correct age, but that used the Christian name by which she was commonly known and the Ancestry entry uses her full birth Christian names. Until the proper sources for this data are declared, I will be giving this Ancestry database a wide birth because it is giving some misleading data, as shown in this example. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex SFHG Member No: 3323

    01/23/2015 03:15:05