Why a missing death certificate?.....

Rodeo · Post by **Rodeo** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 11:45 am

I have been unable to access a 19th century death certificate for which I have searched on SP under every possible variation of the name (and other surname) of the deceased. Why would this be so? If this person died abroad, would a record of the death be held in the GRO archives for Scotland or only in the country in which the death occurred? Alternatively, is it possible that this death has simply not yet been indexed? Are there other reasons of which I am unaware that could account for my failure to locate this death certificate?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Rodeo

JimM · Post by **JimM** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:40 pm

Hi Rodeo
A lot our our ancestors have tried their best to hide from us...

Post the name D.O.B and anything else relevant... we have some pretty good "hide and seek" experts here

good luck

Jim

Rodeo · Post by **Rodeo** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 1:51 pm

Hi Jim

Thanks for your reply. As a relative neophyte, so to speak, I must ask you what the acronym D.O.B. signifies and in what rubric I shoudl post it.

Cheers,

Linda

JimM · Post by **JimM** » Mon Feb 27, 2006 2:07 pm

Hi Linda
Sorry for the shorthand

D.O.B = Date Of Birth
post the details in this forum and I'm sure you will get some help

Jim