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Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 2,364 Send Message	Carol	Report	10 Apr 2010 12:19
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 2,364 Send Message	At the moment deaths go up to 1934. Seems like a 75 year closure period Do Ancestry add later years as they come within this period. Or is it stuck on 1934. My great grandmother died in 1936 Thank you
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	10 Apr 2010 12:38
	Depending what province she was in. Ontario deaths go up to 1947 here: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html?datestamp=1201994035790#start British Columbia deaths up to 1987 here: http://www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/textual/governmt/vstats/v_events.htm
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 2,364 Send Message	Carol	Report	10 Apr 2010 12:41
Member Since: June 2003 Posts: 2,364 Send Message	Thank you Margaret, she died in Ontario
Member Since: January 2007 Posts: 7,623 Send Message	mgnv	Report	10 Apr 2010 21:15
	Technically, Ontario deaths aren't closed. However, there's no published general index for the last 70 y.