1939 National Register??

[vervet]

From what I can understand all we will see is the register produced in 1939, and not any related registers. So people who were not in the household in 1939 would not be recorded on the register.

[barryd]

One wonders if the site may (to use the American Vernacular) fly like a lead balloon. I need a few people that were born in British Colonies and returned prior to World War 2 , That's all. I very rarely use GRO now as much of the information I need is available elsewhere. Free. Its not that I am a better genealogist I just use a routine of free sites. The question is how many people need to know the birth
date of someone alive in 1939?

[coombs]

Tomorrow is the big day, no doubt we will see a 2002 situation happen over again when the 1901 census was released, we may see FindMyPast crash.

[dawnsh]

Will RC have the same policy as it does with the 1911 census re copyright, i.e. no asking for lookups from FindMyPast?

I dont know what the answer to this might be, but I wouldn't really want to give up my credits (whatever the cost) doing look-ups for someone else

[groom]

Tomorrow is the big day, no doubt we will see a 2002 situation happen over again when the 1901 census was released, we may see FindMyPast crash.

Not according to "Lost Cousins" who say on their news letter

"Findmypast's software was updated to make it many times more efficient when the new website was launched last year. I suspect too, that they'll be able to add extra capacity to meet the demand - their parent company is in the IT business, after all."

[Kevin Burrell]

Thinking back to the state of the new website when FindMyPast released it last year, it would surprise the hell out of me if they actually could add extra capacity just like that

[smudwhisk]

Thinking back to the state of the new website when FindMyPast released it last year, it would surprise the hell out of me if they actually could add extra capacity just like that

You forget that they announced the reason for the new website was to ensure that they had capacity to expand because the original infrastructure did not.  Whatever people think of the new site, it doesn't fall over anywhere near as much as the old one did for a year or so prior to the switchover.

[ScouseBoy]

I believe that it is called "bandwidth"  that they need to cope with the quantity of hits?

[smudwhisk]

Yes bandwidth relates to the ability for a lot of people trying to connect to their site.  However, that also depends on the ability of their ISP to to enable the connections to the site.  They also have to have their own server hardware in place to be able to enable many people to connect at any one time to it, older hardware can't always cope with that which was one of the reasons why they will have upgraded their infrastructure last year.