1939 Register up and running

[Guy Etchells]

2) A household doesn't always fit nicely on to one document. In doing the above, I found husband and wife were on different pieces. If you're tracing them (or similar) that counts as two households to unlock 

I stand to be corrected on this but as far as I remember a FindMyPast advisor stated they would only count as one household and you should be able to open both pages.

At least one person has done just that claiming to have access to I think it was 88 people instead of 44 (I think those were the figure given).
Cheers
Guy

[LizzieL]

How many "others" are likely to view an individual household? If I sent my mother's death certificate to FindMyPast (to which I have an annual subscription) It shouldn't cost me anything. I already have several copies of her death certificate because I registered her death and assisted my brother (her executor) sorting out probate etc. But getting her record unredacted would only benefit me. I can't see anyone else being at all interested in this household, so FindMyPast would not gain additional revenue from my actions. 

By opening redacted records you are doing something for future genealogists 1, 5, 20 years down the line.

In addition when other companies can host the register those pages will be open, if people are selfish and do not update the records they have death certificates for we could end up with the situation in 5 or 6 years time where records are open on Findmypast, but not on Ancestry or the Genealogist etc. or open on one of the other two mut not on the first.
Cheers
Guy

The point I was making (in response to Samantha's post) is that FindMyPast would be unlikely to benefit financially from my getting my deceased mother's record unredacted as it is unlikely anyone else would be wanting to look at that particular record in the first place, and the fact that they could then see the record of three people in the household is not going to entice them into buying the record if they had decided it wasn't worth it for only two people. 

I agree for the sake of accuracy and completeness, it would be nice if people could get their deceased relatives unredacted, but if they don't already have the certificate, it would be a costly business.

   

[ReadyDale]

2) A household doesn't always fit nicely on to one document. In doing the above, I found husband and wife were on different pieces. If you're tracing them (or similar) that counts as two households to unlock 

I stand to be corrected on this but as far as I remember a FindMyPast advisor stated they would only count as one household and you should be able to open both pages.

At least one person has done just that claiming to have access to I think it was 88 people instead of 44 (I think those were the figure given).
Cheers
Guy

Glad they have taken the sensible approach on that then. 

[Guy Etchells]

I agree for the sake of accuracy and completeness, it would be nice if people could get their deceased relatives unredacted, but if they don't already have the certificate, it would be a costly business.
   

Agreed, but don't we all complete the life cycle in our research by getting death certificates and transcripts of burial registers & tombstones etc.

Surely it's one of the basic rules of research kill off your ancestors.

Cheers
Guy

[suey]

Using the 1939 Electoral Rolls I found one family that I'd been looking for.  The wife does not come up on a search on FindMyPast but when I look for the daughter and then search by piece number, there she is. 

Luckily for me several family members are living in the same street so searching on FindMyPast by street name I get 106 names in total.  Ten of which are .  Of the three surnames of family members, 8 in total none are spelled correctly.  Four people all with the same surname all in the same house are spelled differently 

I can't see a way to make corrections, can you only do this if you pay to unlock the information?

[dawnsh]

I can't see a way to make corrections, can you only do this if you pay to unlock the information?

Yes

[Guy Etchells]

Using the 1939 Electoral Rolls I found one family that I'd been looking for.  The wife does not come up on a search on FindMyPast but when I look for the daughter and then search by piece number, there she is. 

Luckily for me several family members are living in the same street so searching on FindMyPast by street name I get 106 names in total.  Ten of which are .  Of the three surnames of family members, 8 in total none are spelled correctly.  Four people all with the same surname all in the same house are spelled differently 

I can't see a way to make corrections, can you only do this if you pay to unlock the information?

Yes of course you have to unlock the information first how else could you tell if the transcription was wrong?
If the transcription agrees with the information in the register it is a correct transcription.

Cheers
Guy

[Deirdre784]

Pleased I wasn't desperate to find my great great aunt Catherine. She's in the register as Bathermine . As she's the only occupant I won't be unlocking the record to see what the entry actually looks like. 

[stephc]

(Apologies if this has already been asked)
In the right hand information section there is info about ambulance drivers / arp etc
My male grandfather (bus conductor) is listed as PWC 122/12067

Anyone know what that means ?
volunteer police ?

Thanks