1939 National Register??

[NooshieW]

It certainly holds interest for someone like me who knows very little about my father as I can find out where he was hopefully but it's astronomically priced even with my members discount it's 22.00 for five searches

[eadaoin]

The question is how many people need to know the birth
date of someone alive in 1939?

I only need to know one approximate birthdate - but I do need to know addresses to find those elusive cousins . . I've only a handful of people in the UK . . just bits of three families, really.

I'll probably pop over to London and out to Kew in 2016 - New Year present to myself!

[Guy Etchells]

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.

There is an image on the email that contains the credit discount code.
Which is intriguing

[vervet]

Guy,

For a long time I thought we were going to see the household schedules, but I now understand what's being digitised is the enumerator's transcript books (RG 101)
http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14663902

[Kevin Burrell]

Looking at the way their revenue, profits and net worth has plummeted since the new management team took over and particularly last year), the cynic in me suggests the site has not fallen over as much because of the reduction in subscribed users rather than any improvement in capacity :0)

[suey]

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.


There is an image on the email that contains the credit discount code.
Which is intriguing

To repeat my post no.235 on p27

I got the same e mail and next to that very tempting looking picture it says...

Handwritten Register - View the original register document and see who lived in the surrounding houses in 1939.
   
It quite clearly shows house or road names and numbers, a list of people, looks like their sex, age a column I can't decipher, marital status and occupation.  Now to me that says that if I pay for the register page with my family on it I will also see the neighbours.  If I don't then to me that particular picture is totally mis-leading - 
   

[Kevin Burrell]

...and it does not show redacted records - I suspect at least some of those in that picture would not be shown - you are unlikely to see records for children at school (unless they had passed away before 1991)

[ScouseBoy]

After 75 years  I fail to see why there is a need to delete or redact living people?    Current Electoral registers are open registers. 

[rosie99]

Current Electoral registers are open registers.

We have the chance to 'opt out' of being in the current online electoral registers