1939 Register up and running

[Beeonthebay]

Using Dawn's method which has thrown up some interesting things like why are my mother and her brother not shown with their parents  yet the grandparents had *their* siblings living with them....

However this bit doesn't work for me "Just hover over the free preview button and the full reference should be displayed at the bottom left of the screen"  I actually have to go into each record and look at it in full.  I am on a laptop not a tablet.

[weste]

My greatgranfather charles frederick blakes dob is given as 10 feb 1861. We know he changed his name from richardson. We have a birth cert for a charles frederick richardson saying 10 feb 1862. I know some of the year of births are out by a year. We've seen similarities in family meber photos of the richardson family and am fairly happy now that it is the same man.

[Torwoodlee]

I haven't read all of the pages of this thread but I was wondering if any people were finding problems with transcriptions or people redacted who shouldn't be??

Borderslass

[mgeneas]

Is it possible to submit a correction to an entry on the results page? It is a cousin of my father and I have no intention of paying to view it.
His last name is okay, birthdate is correct so I know who it is, but the writing must have been awful as his first name is 3 question marks

[loo]

I do know that some German cousins of his family were classed as "Aliens" and were sent to the Isle of Wight.

Reckon you mean Isle of Man?
That's where internment camps were located!

Oops - yes I most definitely did mean Isle of Man

Thanks for the correction .... I shall now be forever wondering how on earth "Wight" managed to get onto the page. 

There WERE internees on the Isle of Wight, although I appreciate that this is not where your person was.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=28601.0

I would think that Sept 29, 1939 might have been a bit early for them to have been all rounded up though.  Presumably this Register would have been used to identify and locate them for this purpose.

[groom]

I would think that Sept 29, 1939 might have been a bit early for them to have been all rounded up though.  Presumably this Register would have been used to identify and locate them for this purpose.

Unless there are parts of the register we can't see, how would they know as it doesn't give POB does it?

[Alan b]

I actually have to go into each record and look at it in full.  I am on a laptop not a tablet.

As I said earlier, you don't need to go into each record. Wjen you have the preview you want look at the internet address for it in your browsers web bar where you usually type internet addresses, look at the end of it as there will be a two digital number like 43, just change this to either 42 or 44 and keep on changing it until you have all people you are looking for.

[loo]

I would think that Sept 29, 1939 might have been a bit early for them to have been all rounded up though.  Presumably this Register would have been used to identify and locate them for this purpose.

Unless there are parts of the register we can't see, how would they know as it doesn't give POB does it?

I don't know whether that info is there or not.  I am just speculating.  It seems to me that, given the experience of WW1, and anticipating another war with the same people, that it would have made eminent sense to include it.  If not, why not?

[StanleysChesterton]

.... means she was born after 1915 -- and so should be redacted (ie a closed record) unless they are sure she died before 1991

Yeah, I then worked that out .... and thought "Well, what a lot of hoo-hah about nothing".... so tantalisingly useful .... and so appallingly poor

While I'm sure it'll have some occasional use, it's not exactly the record set I thought we were being promised, the big fanfare..... it's quite a disappointment.

Right now it'd be handy to have a big red button on my tree software that enabled me to type in a year and have it highlight everybody that was alive on that date..... I guess I'll have to trawl through it manually.