1939 Register up and running

[LizzieW]

I've not tried it yet, but then I know all my ancestors who were alive in 1939, my 2 grans, all my aunts and uncles and some cousins.  Both my grans are dead as are all my aunts and uncles and some of the cousins born before 1939.  I'm not sure it would be worth my while to search for any of them.  The only person I'm really interested in is my husband's uncle Harry who neither my husband nor his half brother (10 years older than my husband) knew about.  I've found him on the 1911 census when he was still at home with his parents and siblings, I've found a marriage for him and 2 births of children one in 1916 (about 4 months after their marriage)  and one in 1925 - I wonder why such a large gap, he doesn't appear to have served in WW1 - and there don't appear to be any child deaths, I suppose there could have been miscarriages.  I doubt finding him in 1939 will solve the mystery of why my m.i.l never mentioned her brother, and why her sisters (who I met) didn't either.

[NooshieW]

I searched for my father who died in 1961 but he isn't on there.He was deployed to Malta in the war but not until 1940. His parents are not there either and they have a very unusual surname.my maternal grandparents are also missing.I only found my mother who appears to have both her married names there as well.

[loo]

It depends on what the parameters of your research are.  I know several people who would be interested in my grandparents', parents, aunts and uncles' records, and have only met them through doing the research, but they are not descended from them. 

[jillruss]

I wonder what kind of compulsion there was at the time for everyone to complete these forms?

I have drawn a blank with both sets of grandparents and quite a few others. A friend has looked as well - nothing.

Very, very disappointing.

[Deirdre784]

I wonder what kind of compulsion there was at the time for everyone to complete these forms?

I have drawn a blank with both sets of grandparents and quite a few others. A friend has looked as well - nothing.

Very, very disappointing.

I don't think they were given ration books if forms were not completed or names not included. I believe many people were known to have excluded sons in the hope that they weren't called up but soon realised they'd face other problems and had to get the forms amended.

[danieljones86]

I have just purchased my first and probably last entry from the 1939 register. My main concern is poor transcription of data. I wanted to get my GG Grandmas residence 39 Chapel Hill. The first problem which I suppose is not find my pasts fault are many people who are deceased before 1991 have not been updated. There are 11 people at the residence but I can only see four entries although only one is still living and two died after 1991.

The names are completely wrong on the database the transcriber has put the names of people that on the original image are at the address next-door meaning it took me ages to find the data all the names are mixed up and sates are wrong although the original image is clear enough to make out the correct names as such the household name is even wrong I have submitted multiple corrections to FindMyPast however they may take upto 90 days to correct.

The only person that was correct was my aunt Emily (1924-1990)  and this was the only way I found the entry as all other details are wrong on the database despite being quite legible on the original document.

I think £6.95 is reasonable amount but wonder if it has been rushed out has anyone else come up with this problem.

[Chilternbirder]

I found my grandparents' surname mistranscribed. I only found them because I knew the address anyway.

With the free searches of the index I have filled in two gaps in my knowledge. The only new pieces of knowledge that paying for records would fill are my maternal grandfather's occupation at the time and my paternal g grandparents' address although I found which town they had moved to from the free search.

For somebody of my age whose parent's were adults during WW2 I can't see that this register is going to add enough to be worth the expense.

[Aulus]

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)

Excellent idea. [edit: and it's here: http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=734390.0]

[dawnsh]

Up and running here


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