1939 National Register??

[Guy Etchells]

The original price of £24.95 for 5 households still seems a bit steep, but if it is true that there will be a 25% discount for existing subscribers, that brings the price down to £18.72, only £3.75 per household. Perhaps not too bad for a selection of 5 out of 7 of my and my husband's direct ancestors. Don't know enough about the process for seeing redacted records yet on production of death certificates, so may not see my parents' records for a few years, but it will be a start.
Margaret

Are your parents still alive or are they deceased?

If alive you can ask them to sign an authorisation allowing you to access their information as allowed under the data protection Act 1998
If deceased you could send their death certificates to gain access.

Cheers
Guy

[sugarfizzle]

Interesting, sunnylew.
Seems easier than I thought it would be. So I'll be able to send off death certificate scans to get my parent's records, but not aunts' and uncles' (not forking out £9.25 for their certs).

Why haven't they put this on the 1939 site, I wonder?

Margaret

[carol8353]

I am having trouble understanding why people would want their parents records,surely on the whole we know their dates of births ,marital status and most of the time their parents or siblings?

[Chris Dallimore]

I am having trouble understanding why people would want their parents records,surely on the whole we know their dates of births ,marital status and most of the time their parents or siblings?

Some people aren't that lucky! Not everyone comes from a conventional background. I know if my parents were on it, I'd want to see it.

[groom]

So, if you want to check on slightly more distant relatives it could be quite expensive as you will need to get a death certificate as well as pay to see the records. Then of course if you wanted to see the 1939 to break down a brick wall for someone born after 1915, unless you can find a death, you won't be able to see it.

Will it be a "rolling record" i.e. will people born in 1915 and 1916 be available to see in 2016 and 2017. or is it taken from when the records were released next week?

[sugarfizzle]

Guy - my parents have both died, one in 1971, the other in 2013.  I already have their death certificates, so will be able to see their full details.

carol8353 - I know my parent's dates of birth, but they were both of working age in 1939, would be interesting to see their occupations in 1939 and where they were living.  They may prove not to be where I am expecting them to be.

Margaret

[StevieSteve]

So, if you want to check on slightly more distant relatives it could be quite expensive as you will need to get a death certificate as well as pay to see the records. Then of course if you wanted to see the 1939 to break down a brick wall for someone born after 1915, unless you can find a death, you won't be able to see it.

Will it be a "rolling record" i.e. will people born in 1915 and 1916 be available to see in 2016 and 2017. or is it taken from when the records were released next week?

Weren't the records updated until 1952 - so if they died before then, they will be known deceased and available for inspection?

[sunnylew]

I think it will be a rolling release of records. At least, I don't think it should be an issue for them to do it.

The FAQ says:

"we have developed new methods of automatically closing the records of those people who are living and younger than 100 years and one day."

I would imagine if it's automatically closing the records, it will be able to automatically open them.

Why haven't they put this on the 1939 site, I wonder?

The email they sent me seems to almost be a copy and paste job - it sort of repeats itself here and there and has an odd flow to it - just my opinion

It doesn't feel like a prepared email for these requests, so I think they're still a bit behind the eight ball in getting things set up.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed that "Findmypast Friday" quietly didn't happen last week (though the electoral registers are more than enough to tide me over), the blogs have been revamped so that you can't actually view them chronologically anymore as far as I can see, and there's a new "latest news" box that has had the same news about the electoral registers being uploaded 1 minute ago for a week or so.

I reckon it's all hands on deck trying to get things all together.

On October the 1st,  "Findmypast First" advertised a webcast slated for 3pm GMT on October 30. It promised:

"We'll be taking you on a journey through an exciting new record set released later this month."

Unless they meant the electoral records, I'm guessing the register was due for the weekend (which was still "this month") but ran behind. Monday is an odd day to release something that many people won't be able to access until after work.

This should be an interesting watch, though it's 4am Australia time, so I hope they upload the webcast somewhere afterwards.

[Blue70]

One of the records I got from the 1939 Register Team was for my uncle, an evacuee in Wales, who was born in 1933 and died in 2004. I didn't have to provide proof of death.


Blue