1939 Register up and running

[Beeonthebay]

Would a photo of a CWGC gravestone suffice instead of forking out for a death certificate?  Surely that would be official enough to prove somebody is dead?  I am thinking of my grandfather who is buried in West Derby Cemetery and I have his will. 

What about all the millions of graves maintained by the CWGC surely that is enough proof somebody is dead.

[Lisajb]

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?

[stanmapstone]

Just a thought for those people who have unexpected mystery extra people in their households, perhaps they were evacuated children. I've just found my grandmother with her children living at the address they were evacuated to during the Phony War. She went too because her youngest was still a baby. But older children would have been by themselves, and would be redacted because they'd be assumed to be still alive now.

what was the 'phony war'

'Phoney War' is the name given to the period of time in World War Two from September 1939 to April 1940 when, after the blitzkrieg attack on Poland in September 1939, seemingly nothing happened. http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/world-war-two/world-war-two-in-western-europe/the-phoney-war/

Stan

[suey]

From their facebook page

Findmypast Hi Sharon, Findmypast subscribers get 25% off a bundle - you can read the pricing structure here:

I will now be complaining - am taking a screen shot now in case it gets removed.

Nesta

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% ? 

[groom]

Well I give up with my paternal grandparents, a fairly unusual name but I can't find them. The two addresses I have for them don't show anything, Ive searched the whole road. I've even put in searches just using their first names and dates of birth and leaving places blank, nothing! I've found one of their married sons and a married daughter, but the other 3 sons would be with them and would be redacted as they were born after 1915.

Would the fact that my grandfather's parents were German have anything to do with it?

[coombs]

You can fiddle with the results by searching for a DOB previously unknown, due to not yet getting the cert. My 2xgreat uncle's birth was registered in the Sep quarter of 1877 so I searched surname then month of birth and borough, then found it was May, and then searched from the end of May backwards and he was born 30th May 1877.

And I did find my 1915 born great uncle in Greenwich in 1939.

[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.

[Guy Etchells]

Excuse my ignorance, but what does the colume entitled "O, V, S, P or I" indicate?

I don’t know for sure they appear to be connected with nursing homes etc.
And possible refer to occupation

O Official matron cook/housekeeper, Clerk in Holy Orders etc
V Volunteer MY Uncle and Aunt both Medical Practitioners (GPs) and a lady (of private means) have the code V on another household which is a Nursing College.

S Staff this seems to be staff such as Nurses, Porters, Housemaid, Parlourmaid
P Patient
I Inmate (guess)

Sometimes the word wife appears in that column as well.
Cheers
Guy

[smudwhisk]

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.

Its been changed to 90 days as of last Friday.