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From: "Lee J. Moore" <>
Subject: Re: Death Registrant..
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 15:46:24 +0100
References: <zn839ra5.fsf@vercetti.lan> <200405201416.i4KEGJjg085824@smtp1.freeola.net>


One may as well begin with Roy's letter to soc.genealogy.britain:
//
>> I'm not sure of (can't remember) the procedure when somebody dies at
>> home, but I was under the impression the G.P. still had to officially
>> confirm the death and provide the relevant documentation for the
>> Register Office. How easy that is to forge, I'm not sure.>
>
> Determined and clever criminals can forge anything these days and
> make it look exactly like the real thing, which is why people who
> want to put restrictions on obtaining BMD certificates are talking
> through the back of their neck. The problem, and the answer, lies
> elsewhere.

ISWYM. It strikes me there'd be in increase in fraudulent registrations
or even avoided registrations if ID was required.

> Roy Stockdill Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:-
> www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:-
> www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

Excellent newbie guide btw. I only read it properly in full last
night. :-)
--
Lee J. Moore
Let us hob and nob with Death - Tennyson

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