1939 Register up and running

[Samantha]

I shared my opinion.  I'm fairly sure Findmypast would like each household to be viewed multiple times.  The only family of mine in the 1939 Register are Greats and Great Greats Gramps and Aunts, Uncles and their offspring.  Not all of us have lots of info about our families, and some families are complicated and big.  One of those families has 10 children and 2 halves... imagine how many descendants come from that one cluster.  This same family have multiple family trees on Ancestry suggesting that multiple people are interested in researching and finding out.  Many of the people died after 1991 so are seemingly redacted (their common single first names and common surname complicates it further).

I also do not have the death certificates for the ones I'm talking about.  Not everyone can afford to by certificates for everyone they research, especially when you do not live locally to the UK (ie the exchange rate makes costs rather astronomical).

Also researchers use the resources for many other purposes... surname studies; social demographic work; local and regional research; occupation research... just to name a few.  Due to it's significant timing on the eve of war and the fact that there are no Census' after 1921 for research this resource will be heavily utilized in time by a wide range of researchers and they, I imagine, won't bother until the data is 'more complete'. 

[bugbear]

MODS - is there scope for a edited-and-locked "1939 Register Search tips" thread?

There's some really good stuff in this TL;DR thread.

 BugBear (off to define a "1939 Register Preview" Source in his DB)

[LizzieL]

Just found an address with a bit of trial and error from free previews.

Use the person search to find the person of interest and narrow own to one hit using the other fields. Then I put *road, *street, *lane, *avenue etc to narrow down the list of streets in the particular borough.
Then I opened a second browser window with address search. Once I had a hit on whether it was *street,*road etc. I tried to narrow down first part starting with vowels e.g *a*street, *e*street etc.

Each time I got a hit, I would mirror it on address search and narrow down my potential street list. Then try the first letter e.g A*e*street, B*e*street. The mirror list of streets will tell you if some letters aren't worth trying. Although it sounds a long process, I have found two addresses so far quite quickly. Once I'm at street level, I used Dawn's tip to match up the reference number by hovering mouse over preview button and then I get house number.

(Laptop running Windows 10)

[dawnsh]

LizzieL,

can you put a copy of your tip here

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=734390.0

[LizzieL]

Just copied it over

Good tips on that thread

[carol8353]

Does anyone know why I can't find my friends grandma in 1939- she was born c 1875 +/- 10 years,in Poland ,came to London (her brother went to USA) and had kids in at least 1916 and 1919.

Although she gives her surname as Miller (she was born Rebecca Goldstein) on the kids birth certs and in electoral rolls up to 1930 and from 1945-48,she never actually married.

I saw talk of foreigners being interned away from home,could that be why she doesn't seem to be on the 1939 register? Her 1919 daughter had a baby in 1944,and I'm sure she was in London by then.
Daughter and grandaughter moved to the USA in 1948/9.

I thought the 1939 register would solve all my problems but it doesn't 

Carol

[magnacarta]

I've looked up two different people and then looked at original sheets, both have mistakes on the people living with them I filled in error sheet but message pops up to say there is a problem sending it. Apart from that I was happy with the information I got.

[dawnsh]

If the people here who are mentioning they have noticed transcription errors have all submitted corrections, then there might be a problem with the site coping. Try again later.

[bugbear]

Success! I have used the name and DOB of a co-habitee to identify a previously unknown marriage.

(the name was too common for FreeBMD to narrow it down).

 BugBear