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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:58:59 +0000
Julian Hall <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello Julian,
> Register to check who has died in the past year? All it needs is the
> Births, Marriages and Deaths Register to list the NI number for (in
The registers don't contain NI numbers and although a Medical Number is
issued at time of birth registration, that's not recorded on the birth
certificate. The only thing that's available for checking (easily) is
the GRO and or local indexes of BMD registrations, and they contain
little info. For deaths it has name of deceased, date of birth, (if
known), Registration District were death was registered, volume and
page number. Nowhere near enough info to determine if you've got the
right John Smith in Exeter that month. For deaths, information is
notoriously inaccurate, because the informant may not know the correct
DoB, or even the correct spelling of the name. For example, is Fred
really Fred, Frederic or Frederick? And in any case, might not have
used any of those names for the TV License.
With legislation as it currently stands, the only way to get
information from a registration is to buy a certified copy of that
registration. At £7.00 they aren't cheap, either. It would require a
complete overhaul of the registration system to do what you suggest.
Not that it's a bad idea, but given the fact that the government have
completely ballsed up the last overhaul, and had to go back to doing it
all manually, until they can sort it out, it's not a good omen.
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