1939 Register up and running

[Chris Dallimore]

I think I must of missed something.

We were told that if we wished to reveal a redacted entry, we simply needed to send a copy of the death certificate. Now I'm reading that we need to pay £25 as well! I'm pretty sure this was not advertised in advance.

To add to this, the chap I want to look at died before 1991 anyway!

Where on the site does it say about paying £25?

Exactly! It does not tell you until you actually try and apply for the record to be released. You have to have a full subscription to avoid this charge.

[Kevin Burrell]

The £25 charge is the charge payable to the National Archives to do a search. This would only be incurred if you wanted a redacted record opened and did not have a subscription with FindMyPast. If you have a subscription (and have unlocked the record concerned), FindMyPast provide the service free

[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.

I was told all Aliens who were allowed to live in their own home had to report to the local police station daily.  Presumably all of them had to report to be processed in the first instance.  Attached is the earliest internal Police response when Elizabeth reported to her local cop shop.  The next copy document I have is a very long questionnaire which was sent to various police stations until it eventually arrived at the County HQ for verification.

Fascinating! Thanks for sharing this interesting document.  I know a fair bit about WW1 internments but not much about WW2 as my lot were no longer vulnerable then. 

[loo]

The £25 charge is the charge payable to the National Archives to do a search. This would only be incurred if you wanted a redacted record opened and did not have a subscription with FindMyPast. If you have a subscription (and have unlocked the record concerned), FindMyPast provide the service free

This was my experience as well.  See #33 above, page 4, although I didn't know it was connected to the fact that I don't have an active subscription.  Ding! ding! ding!  It seems outrageous considering they can do it for free for some and charge others so much.  They charge enough for the records themselves.

[Chris Dallimore]

The £25 charge is the charge payable to the National Archives to do a search. This would only be incurred if you wanted a redacted record opened and did not have a subscription with FindMyPast. If you have a subscription (and have unlocked the record concerned), FindMyPast provide the service free

This was my experience as well.  See #33 above, page 4, although I didn't know it was connected to the fact that I don't have an active subscription.

Yes. It seems to be punishment for not getting ripped off in advance as a subscriber!

Personally, I feel this is quite ironic as most of my family in 1939 were struggling to feed and clothe themselves and working in awful jobs, and now I'm here in 2015 weighing up if £7 is too much for their record!

[groom]

It seems outrageous considering they can do it for free for some and charge others so much.

No they aren't doing it for free - they are offering it as part of a service to the people who already have a subscription. For those who want a lot of records unlocked it will obviously be cheaper in the long run to buy a subscription to FindMyPast.

[LisaRobinson87]

Is anyone else getting an unknown error has occurred while processing your request? i'd just hopefully found who i was searching for by address and this keeps coming up but doesn't when i search by names!!

[Trevor Rix]

I am about to submit a FindMyPast Evidence of Death Form to have a deceased person unredacted, but am stuck on the question Street name *. On the image of the household the address is 85 ditto, with dittos all the way down the page. I don't know the street/road in which they lived. Any ideas?

[StevieSteve]

Sorry, old news