Genealogy Chat

Helen. Love it! :-) Keith

How scary! The school where I work has just got new technology so the children can take out books and be identified using a thumb scan. I joked that we ought to put a barcode on their foreheads so that when they came to school it would say BEEP! BILLY BLOGGS! beep! library book 2 weeks overdue! beep! mother has not paid dinner money this term! beep! did not do spelling homework! beep! has forgotten PE kit! beep! SATS results not consistent with foundation stage predictions! beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeepppppppppppppp!!!! nell

Richard That sounds one step beyond my thought that one day they will use the blood sample taken from new babies at about 6 days old and use it to make each person an individual bar code to scan.....

Actually Helen - I think that in the future we'll all have little silicon chips implanted in our skulls at birth - then they'll simply be able to scan us when we marry, have kids, divorce or die, and it will all be recorded in the master database. Frightening thought really - but it would make genealogy a lot easier, lol!!

Birthplace and dob was added to death certs after 1969. But as with other info on certs, it is dependent on what the informant of the death knows/remembers/thinks. My grandfather's death, registered by my uncle has his birthdate out by a year and his place of birth misspelled. Hopefully in the future, registrars will need to check an online gazetteer of placenames before recording them. nell

If its an exact match for the d.o.b. and name (including both middle names) then I'd say that he's most likely yours. Check the births at around that time to see if there was another possibility with the same name (two John George Edwin Spencers born on the same day seems quite unlikely). Richard

It depends when he died and what the informant told the registrar. Not sure of dates but maybe 1970s? they started putting birthplace on death certificates. We bought one from 1982 as the overseas birthplace was crucial to our research, - back it came with Poland in that box. Hm... It's a big place.

Suzy Anything other than birth place I won't be able to sustanciate. He was my grandfather, but left my grandmother after 7 years of marriage, and supposidly went to Brighton..... As I can't find anyone else who fits the bill, I think I will take this one but mark as 'not confirmed' Thanks for your help Elly

Elly If it helps Lewes is very close to Brighton. I don't think place of birth is on a death certificate. Sorry. There may be other information on it which may confirm it's the right one - like informant may be a parent or spouse. Suzy

Hi can anyone tell me? I have John George Edwin Spencer born Northampton 1/5/1911 - story goes he went to Brighton......Found death same name/dob registered in Lewes East Sussex - If I order the cert, will the place of birth be there? Thanks Elly