Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
from Deceased Online

We're delighted to wish our customers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year with Buy One Get One Free on pay-per-view voucher purchases at www.deceasedonline.com. The offer runs from now until midday on Monday 4th January 2021.

To take advantage of the offer, add vouchers to your basket and click "add promotions code":

Enter the code MERRYCHRISTMAS and click "add to basket":

Then complete your voucher purchase as normal and your free vouchers will be added to your account.

Photo Credit from the last bulletin

Deceased Online omitted to credit the photo of Hawes Craven's grave, which was featured in our previous bulletin, and we apologise for this error. The photograph was taken by Gregor Murbach / murbachresearch.com.

Our Records

Deceased Online is proud to host over 30 million records from over 1,000 locations across the UK. We're currently working hard on processing millions more burial and cremation records from authorities all over Britain, including one of the three largest cemeteries in the country.

Watch out for our newsletters to discover when new records are released.

To narrow searches down to an area or to a specific cemetery or crematorium use the advanced search facility. For example, to search records in Salford, select the following:

Country - United Kingdom
Region - North West
County - Greater Manchester
Contributor - Salford City Council (for all Salford records)
or Cemetery - Agecroft Cemetery, Salford (for Agecroft Cemetery only)

Once you click on a name in the search results it will show the information that is available to view. Common types of information include:

• The scan of the relevant burial or cremation register page. This will show the handwritten entry made in the original register and will usually include details such as age, date of burial/cremation and death, and older registers can include address, and even cause of death and occupation.
• How many people are in the same grave as the record you've searched, their names, dates and the full grave reference
• A section map showing the area where the grave is located or the ashes are buried/scattered
• Headstone image.

Above: Viewing the other occupants of the grave

Useful search tips:

The wild card is a "%" and can be inserted anywhere that there may be a variation in spelling of a name. Typing "ab%" will return all the people whose name starts with Ab, such as Abbott, Abberley, Abbey, etc. Typing M%cDonald will return both McDonald and MacDonald.

For all variants on one letter in a name, use an underscore: _. Typing "H_ywood" will return both Haywood and Heywood.

Above: Searching a cemetery with the surname "Ab%"

Search tips are detailed in full on Deceased Online's help page