Checking your database against the Mortality file

The most distressing thing a direct mailing can do is to mail to a person who as deceased. There are a number of things that can be done

The Mortality File

The Mortascreen file, now the largest deceased suppression file available. The file includes a range of new data sources, including information previously directed to The Deceased Register. The file includes probate records, obituary notices, Royal Mail returns marked deceased plus data from freepost cards issued at local Register offices.

Mortascreen Plus

Mortascreen Plus is a sub-set of the Mortascreen file collated by Smee & Ford from information supplied by the probate systems of England, Wales and Scotland. It is designed to identify only those deceased records for which guaranteed verification can be supplied.

The Bereavement Register (TBR)

Compiled from information volunteered by the family and friends of recently deceased, The Bereavement Register is managed and distributed by the REaD Group.