1939 Register up and running

[Marmalady]

I have found a mistake in my Grandparents household

I expected to be able to see 3 available records (grandparents plus one deceased aunt) plus 4 redacted records (my mother plus 3 siblings all alive/recently died)

But instead, there are 4 available & 3 redacted -- an aunt who should have been redacted is clearly shown -- and she is very much alive & kicking in her mid-eighties!

Have only viewed the index, not bought the full entries

Is her DoB correct? As per my early reply, my aunt is showing, as her DoB is shown as 1860 rather than 1938, and she is most certainly still with us.

Yes Dob correctly given as 1928, with later married name also given

[relatedtoturnips]

Im sure most people here know, but just in case. If you know some details of the record they have is wrong, you can submit a correction, using the Update the record option. I have already corrected a street name that was wrong.

I feel sorry for the transcribers, some of the text is horrible!

Cheers.

[coombs]

My grandfather died in January 1992, was born in 1920 so just misses out, he died after 1991 so he is not on the register, he may have been in the RAF by then anyway. I found my gran, she died in 1970 and is in Southend in 1939.

There are a few rellies I cannot find either.

[Marmalady]

My mum's not on it.  Not bought any households, but the search results give me 0.

I know where she was, she was 14 and living with her granny/granddad and uncles/aunts.  I know the exact address.  I know they moved into that house in 1933 and were still in it past 1949.  She was there.  They weren't wealthy, she couldn't have been anywhere else - she'd have just left school and was working on a production line at the factory down the road.

Granny's there.  A lot of the household it says are closed records, looking at it it looks like granny/granddad will be named.... others in the house (aged 14 to possibly 35) are just lumped together under the "5 others" ....

If she was 14 in 1939, that means she was born after 1915 -- and so should be redacted (ie a closed record) unless they are sure she died before 1991

So she will be there, as part of granny's household -- but you just aren't allowed to see her yet

[Rena]

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. 

[davidft]

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[cockney rebel]

Well, what a day I've had!

Haven't paid a penny but through cross-reference and the advice that dawnsh offers in post 118 on page 14 of this thread I have managed to access and confirm so much info in my family tree. (I remember something similar was possible with the reference numbers when the 1901 census was released)

The only aspect that surprises me is that so many ancestors don't seem to know their exact birthdate! it's always a couple of days out or the date is right and the year is plus one.
But I suppose we learn when our birthday is from our parents...and we all know how confusing parents can be!

Rebel

[Alan b]

Using the TNA reference to Search

I don't have any credits but have managed to find out who was living with my great-grandparents

Do the search for the person you do know and make a note of the reference

eg RG101/0950E/009/*

you don't need the last digits represent by the *

then if you do a blank search (no names or places) just using the reference, you ignore the RG101, the piece number (in my eg) 0950E and the item number 009

If I do this search I get a long list of people but the family I want will have sequential numbers. You have to do a free preview of all the names but you can work out who is living with whom. Just hover over the free preview button and the full reference should be displayed at the bottom left of the screen.

The lady that was living with my great-grandparents was listed after them.

There is another way to do this, when you have the preview window open just change the number at the end of the web address in your browsers bar where you type web addresses into, so if it says 23 at the end of the address change it to 22 or 24 as it saves having to check the other previews and is a bit quicker !

[groom]

Well, what a day I've had!

Haven't paid a penny but through cross-reference and the advice that dawnsh offers in post 118 on page 14 of this thread I have managed to access and confirm so much info in my family tree. (I remember something similar was possible with the reference numbers when the 1901 census was released)

The only aspect that surprises me is that so many ancestors don't seem to know their exact birthdate! it's always a couple of days out or the date is right and the year is plus one.
But I suppose we learn when our birthday is from our parents...and we all know how confusing parents can be!

Rebel

Can you see the exact date of birth without paying, I thought it just showed the year?