Find Ancestors

If I go to
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/
I get the option to switch to old search, and then select BMDs from the "Search" item in the main menu bar
I can then select "England & Wales BMD Index"
For me, it's a "Featured Title in this Category", but it's also in the full list of titles.
Then pick Deaths 1916-2005 and search (check exact box) for:
ann* b 4/10/1894 +/-5 y.d 1985 +/-20 pod=London

There's 42 hits, including:

Name Birth Year Death Registration Month/Year District Inferred County Order Record View Image
Annie Louisa Power 1889 1971 Brent Greater London

Now it doesn't matter if she's nowt to do with your mob - she's just the example here

You won't see all these details - I don't remember what details you can see - the detail we want is the yod=1971
So search again - try 1985+/-10, 1995+/-10, 1975+/-10, 1975+/-5, etc till you pin it down.

I'm pretty sure you won't see the rego district - you could try the 30+ Greater London RDs one by one, but that's a pain even if you know them all.
Anyway, to get that it's quickest to look up the image on FreeBMD.
It's a bit of a pain, so for this example, go straight to 1971q3 when you look up the image at:
http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

One thing I didn't mention is that Ancestry might ask you to do a free rego.
If you do this, check the box to get their newsletter. Occassionally, they offer free access.
I think last November, they offered access to their UK military records for a weekend - they did this last ANZAC day, too.


Anyways, try it out - you could probably figure it out yourself if you tried it, now you've some idea of what you're after.