1939 Register up and running

[Guy Etchells]

Does anyone know if the 5 household package has a time limit on it, will you lose your money if you don't use it up in a certain period of time?

One year from date of purchase.

Or 90 days if you are not a subscriber mine last until 26/01/2016
Cheers
Guy

[StevieSteve]

I am an annual subscriber - only got 10%  but I don't have a worldwide package, could that be the answer.  Only those with the full package are getting 25% ? 

No that won't be it. I was given 25% for an annual UK package (that was itself a 50% off Christmas promotion)

[kooky]

The 25% discount offer only seems to apply to the Irish Find My Past site - Find My Past ie
Kooky

[stonechat]

Haha

Found an error
One of the daughters in a household got married Mabel , to a Mr Petrie
However the record has the other daughter's surname amended to Petrie

[stonechat]

The 25% discount offer only seems to apply to the Irish Find My Past site - Find My Past ie
Kooky

They haven't bothered to send me any discount

[Deirdre784]

Does anyone know if the 5 household package has a time limit on it, will you lose your money if you don't use it up in a certain period of time?

One year from date of purchase.

Or 90 days if you are not a subscriber mine last until 26/01/2016
Cheers
Guy

Oops sorry, bought mine last Thursday and my account says valid until 28 October 2016. Mind you, I've already unlocked three households and very disappointed. Should have checked first but I've got 1 household with 7 locked records!!!

[Aulus]

Received the email from FindMyPast half an hour ago.  I've had an annual subscription for a few years now, and the email says a 25% discount.  On the UK site. Offer expires 30th Nov. so FindMyPast clearly wants to drive traffic in the first month.

I've had a quick look and spotted both sets of grandparents, but not paid any further, as I can't believe it'll show me more than I know already.

The really interesting thing is precisely that which we can't find out - who are the redacted people in the household?  One set of grandparents, I can't account for the redacted person (one of my parents), but the other has a couple of redacted names that I have no idea about.  They can't be evacuees, as the address is in the East End of London.

The one person I can immediately think of that I'd like to know about was born 1923 and died 2009. I don't know if I can't find her because she's redacted or because she hadn't arrived in the UK yet.

Has anyone started a petition to the government yet to have the names of redacted people made available, even if their other details remain redacted? 

I had no idea this register was still being maintained and updated to 1991: anyone know of any articles etc about how and why this was done? Were civil servants employed to scan GRO indexes and look for possible marriages & deaths, or did they get copies from the GRO, to cross reference?

[heywood]

I have a UK subscription and have had a few emails - some not read- from FindMyPast re the register.
Today's offered me 25% discount and I just checked last Thursday's does too. It expires at the end of the month. Not sure when my subscription expires though.

[Beeonthebay]

Received the email from FindMyPast half an hour ago.  I've had an annual subscription for a few years now, and the email says a 25% discount.  On the UK site. Offer expires 30th Nov. so FindMyPast clearly wants to drive traffic in the first month.

I've had a quick look and spotted both sets of grandparents, but not paid any further, as I can't believe it'll show me more than I know already.

The really interesting thing is precisely that which we can't find out - who are the redacted people in the household?  One set of grandparents, I can't account for the redacted person (one of my parents), but the other has a couple of redacted names that I have no idea about.  They can't be evacuees, as the address is in the East End of London.

The one person I can immediately think of that I'd like to know about was born 1923 and died 2009. I don't know if I can't find her because she's redacted or because she hadn't arrived in the UK yet.

Has anyone started a petition to the government yet to have the names of redacted people made available, even if their other details remain redacted? 

I had no idea this register was still being maintained and updated to 1991: anyone know of any articles etc about how and why this was done? Were civil servants employed to scan GRO indexes and look for possible marriages & deaths, or did they get copies from the GRO, to cross reference?

Good points.  How and why update a register from 1939?  All the way up to 1991.

Big brother?