1939 National Register??

[coombs]

Gosh I often wonder how many BMD certs are there where an ancestor registered the death of, or was a marriage witness to. At marriages and deaths of never before known friends, relatives etc, neighbours.

I did look up the 1939 register for my great, great gran a few years ago, and paid for it. Her year of birth was a year out (as you may expect for someone born in 1863) even though day and month was right. I cannot wait for the full register to come out on FindMyPast so I can find where my nans older half brother was, all I know is he was in London and had a common name, but I have his DOB. He was born in May 1915 so just over 100 years ago and died in 2006, and when they started digitisng them he may have still come under the Under 100 years ago birth category though. Dont know if they would have check for a death.

[StanleysChesterton]

I've no burning questions about 1939, I know where most people were living that'd be "important" to my files .... but, it'd have been interesting to do "random searches" to find out where everybody was actually living... the extended family. 

I have the exact address my grandmother/uncles were living; I have the exact address my mother/grandparents/great-uncles were living.  Beyond that it's just mild interest (if free) to have then looked up everybody's names.  e.g. the great-uncles who'd married by that date ... and anybody else that was still alive.  But no "need".

My grandmother and great-grandparents etc moved into new housing estates between 1933-1936 and I can see their applications to install a shed are held at the local archives... giving their name and their exact address.  So that covers that as I know my great-grandmother lived in that house until the mid 1950s and my grandmother lived in hers until 1990 or so.

Having unfettered/free access might throw up some unexpected "A was living with B" scenarios that one hadn't expected, I guess.

[Treetotal]

Just read on the Who Do Think You are website regarding the 1939 register, that FindMyPast users with have unlimited access to the records as part of their subscription.
Carol

[carol8353]

I have just read the Find my Past page re the 1939 register,it's quite interesting.

http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/2015/what-does-the-1939-register-mean-for-family-historians/

[barryd]

I eagerly read all of the answers and it looks very much like I may be able to find my person Rolf Creasy born in Ceylon with no documentation. Hopefully he was in England and he did register and that may be the only time his birth date is published. Being an MD he should get his birthdate right!

[smudwhisk]

Just read on the Who Do Think You are website regarding the 1939 register, that FindMyPast users with have unlimited access to the records as part of their subscription.
Carol

Well that would be a change of tune from last month on FindMyPast's own Facebook page.  Do you have a link to the article Carol please as can't seem to find one?  I'd be surprised, having already said there would be an additional charge, if they've gone back on it but I wonder if the "unlimited access" refers to an add-on subscription for it which was what was being suggested by them on Facebook last month.  I hope there isn't an extra sub involved but it wouldn't surprise me if there was, as with the 1911 Census when it initially became available on the site.

[Mean_genie]

The feature on the WDYTYA website is a news story from March 2014

http://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/news/millions-people-be-revealed-1939-register-online

[smudwhisk]

Just been a bit sad and scrolled through the "posts to page" on FindMyPast's Facebook page.  It was middle of August when someone managed to solicit a response from FindMyPast regarding whether the 1939 National Register would be included in existing subscriptions or not.  As you can see from the attached (I've excluded the name of the person who posted the query, and rubbed out their photo, out of privacy but have included the date), they have said it will involve a "supplementary charge".  Now I hope they change their mind, but I doubt very much that will happen.

On the question about when it will be released, interestingly the Society of Genealogists have a one hour lecture on 18 November by a FindMyPast staff member on how to get the best out of the data (fully booked but only listed recently) - http://www.rootschat.com/links/01gbj/.  I'd be surprised if this had been timetabled to appear much, if at all, prior to the National Register being released because otherwise the participants won't be able to "practice" the tips after they have attended.  However, time will tell.

[LizzieW]

Unfortunately the one person I want a date of birth for, my g.grandfather, died in 1935.