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In my area, the schedules in 1939 follow the same route as in the 1911 and 1921 Censuses. If you can find the house, or something near it, in the previous couple of censuses, you may find it easier to locate it in the 1939 Register.

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My great-aunt's husband and two of his sisters were put into care following the death of their father, in 1907. Not Barnados, it was National Children's Homes, now Action for Children (which is where we got some paperwork from).

I found him in Essex in 1911 (he was from Yorkshire), boarded out with a family. I put him and the family up on Lost Cousins, and one of the family contacted me. She told me they had planned to take him with them when they emigrated to Canada (I think shortly after the census), but his mother refused permission, to their great sadness. His sisters were both in orphanages, but not the same one.

He eventually joined the police, married my great aunt, and lived on Tyneside. Lovely man.

I can quite see why they've put it up - but I suspect they will have priced many of us out of the market.

Also just off to order a bunch of wills before the 17th!

Same here. My father's maternal grandfather was an only child, who married an only child(!). Doesn't make for many matches, especially when we suspect that his father may also have been an only child! We've been looking for his (my 2g grandfather's) birth and parents for 50 years.

I've had 4 cousins contact me. One took a DNA test, and found she was adopted. The other three vanished into the woodwork when I mentioned "DNA test".  So no help there.

I have a few matches who have the fairly unusual surname in their trees, nearly all with roots in one village in Norfolk. And one friend, who looked startlingly like my father, turned up in my matches last year. He matches two others, and all three are descended from one illegitimate lady in Hackney. They match none of my other matches at all. But that is all I have after several years waiting. 

I have dozens of matches in my mother's tree. One couple have 35 matches descended from them! But my father's tree is much poorer. What with only children, and illegitimate children, it's been much more challenging.