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A bit puzzled and a little worried................

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Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 6 Jan 2004 01:32

Have noticed if you hover the mouse after the age born it says how old they would be now and after the died bit there comes up a reference number...

Andy

Andy Report 6 Jan 2004 01:22

just getting a page not displayed message.

Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 6 Jan 2004 00:47

Janet have e-mailed you hope you dont mind... p.s am not far from you M.K.

Janet

Janet Report 6 Jan 2004 00:34

Oo-er ...... Janet ......... w-e-i-r-d!! Perhaps you ought to contact them and ask them? Yes, Lynda - I've been getting the strange photo's too! It's not just you!

Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 6 Jan 2004 00:24

No Janet neither can I , to be honest I am a little alarmed, I keep going back to check but its there as true as day.

Janet

Janet Report 6 Jan 2004 00:16

This has got to be the most intriguing and FRUSTRATING website around! (Sorry to shout)!! I persisted though! I kept getting 'website not available' or a 'timeout error' while searching. Perhaps we were all trying at the same time? I found an uncle - mother's brother - who died in Birmingham, but couldn't find other uncles who had died within the past 5 years. I then tried some of the old folk from the village who had died within the past 2 years, and found some, but not others. The ones I did find were shown as having died at 'Wellingborough' which is our registration district, and about 9 miles away from the village. I suspect that this is information from the death registers, although I can't work out how they also had your uncle's nickname Janet!? I suppose the data protection act doesn't apply to people who have died? If anyone finds out any more information, PLEASE let us all know!

Margaret

Margaret Report 6 Jan 2004 00:15

I managed to get on with http://www.webfamily.org.uk There is a space after www. on the original post so if you copied and pasted that's why you can't get on Just going to go back and have another look at it Margaret

Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 5 Jan 2004 23:54

I am quite freaked by it, I cant understand where they have my uncles nickname from???? Is def him as his birthday was xmas day and all the information is right

BobClayton

BobClayton Report 5 Jan 2004 23:50

Just thought about Theresa's comment. I think the records were stored electronically from about 1983.(This is when they stopped dividing into quarters) Perhaps someone has hacked into the records! Bob

Sue (Sylvia Z )

Sue (Sylvia Z ) Report 5 Jan 2004 23:44

I have also had a look at this website. My father is on it, but his date of death is given as 03/1998. He actually died on 28th February 1998, so I wonder how accurate their facts and their English are, as his place of death was also a bit strange on this site. Sue

Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 5 Jan 2004 23:42

I had probs getting on there, but went through google in the end

Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 5 Jan 2004 23:39

Ermmm even more spooked now ...on there is my uncle with two identical entries, one in his real name one in his nick name????

BobClayton

BobClayton Report 5 Jan 2004 23:17

I thinkSue is right, it looks like death cert info, hence the married names. It's nothing to worry about though. The site seems very flakey. Bob

BrianW

BrianW Report 5 Jan 2004 23:16

Looks like it's a new site and has been started off with deaths 1996-2001. Several cousins and my father in law are listed.

Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 5 Jan 2004 23:10

yes jayne not much info about the site either is there

Jay

Jay Report 5 Jan 2004 23:07

Have you noticed that is is supposed to be a UK SITE but the names of the 'owners' are foreign? The picture names also look foreign. regards Jayne

Jan From Bristol

Jan From Bristol Report 5 Jan 2004 23:05

very freaky....... loads of mine on there :(

Stephen

Stephen Report 5 Jan 2004 23:04

My husbands uncle who died in Essex and my grandmother who died in Portsmouth were on there but again under my Grandma's married name. Very weird. Not sure about that one. Any relatives that died before the 1990's don't appear to be on there. Rachel

Jay

Jay Report 5 Jan 2004 23:02

There a thousands of names on it. regards JAYNE

Steven

Steven Report 5 Jan 2004 23:01

Seems a little wobbly does this site, sounds like its targetting a very select few!!!!!!!! ??????. be careful.