Missing RCE's on Scotland's People - Advice

WilmaM · Post by **WilmaM** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 10:41 am

I had a Death record with an RCE notation, but no 'red button' to View it on Scotland's People.

I contacted them and was sent the missing information with this advice:

Unfortunately, there have been some linkage problems for certain RCE's, which we hope will be rectified in due course, but as the errors are at random and do not apply to specific areas we are currently relying on SP users notifying us of the problems as they arise.

Worth bearing in mind , and I'm certain that the Talking Scotties will very helpfully bombard SP with all the missing entries they have

AileenA · Post by **AileenA** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 12:19 pm

hello
This may be a daft question but how did you know that there should have been a RCE?

I've got a gggran who drowned in the River Leven, but no RCE attached to the death cert even although all other rellies that died in accidents have RCE's. I'm presuming it was an accident, it only says 'found drowned' on the cert. If she committed suicide would that be mentioned on the death cert, do you know?

LesleyB · Post by **LesleyB** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:15 pm

Hi Aileen

This may be a daft question but how did you know that there should have been a RCE?

Ther will be a notation in the left margin of the birth, marriage or death entry indicating this.

I've got a gggran who drowned in the River Leven, but no RCE attached to the death cert even although all other rellies that died in accidents have RCE's. I'm presuming it was an accident, it only says 'found drowned' on the cert.

An RCE would only be added if some correction needed to be made to the entry. e.g. if the cause of death was found to be something different, or even the same cause, but needed to be worded differently to what was already recorded, or if the name had been recorded incorrectly etc.
See http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/conte ... r=551&1314 for more info.

If she committed suicide would that be mentioned on the death cert, do you know?

Is it was known that the cause of death was suicide, that would be mentioned on the death entry. (I've seen a few that do mention suicide)

Best wishes
Lesley

AileenA · Post by **AileenA** » Tue Jan 13, 2009 1:18 pm

Thanks Lesley for clarifying that for me, I've been searching newspaper reports to try to find out what actually happened to her.
Aileen