Preview search tips for the 1939 Register before you buy

[clairec666]

and the 'missing' other household member feature is a temporary one, the technical team are working on it!

I thought maybe they'd removed that bit because it was giving away too much information for free! With uncommon names, you could work out exactly who was in the same house as each other, without even looking at the free preview.

[sandiep]

they said the missing ref no was temporary and the technical team were looking into it!!

[carolli]

 Am I imagining this? or have I seen a link to a list identifying the location of piece numbers?

[dawnsh]

I posted a link to the 1911 census and the piece numbers which can in a lot of places tie up with details found on the 1939 schedules at the top of the pages

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/browse/r/h/C13339

click on the county, then select a district and then look for the area you are interested in.

[carolli]

Thanks dawnsh

[Mean_genie]

The catalogue reference for the 1939 Register is RG 101

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C14663902

and it contains more than 660 thousand pieces because the 1939 enumeration districts are much smaller than they would be in a census. They are based on local authority boundaries which may differ from registration districts. It is easier to get your bearings if you use it in conjunction with the list of area codes on the FindMyPast site, which they have listed both alphabetically by area code, and also geographically.

http://www.findmypast.co.uk/articles/1939-register-enumeration-districts?_ga=1.229684824.551440129.1437955750

[dawnsh]

The link I posted is particularly useful for rural areas where the name of the village is not shown at the top of the 1939 page.

My grandmother is in Buckinghmshire, Winslow district ref 147/3, using TNA link I've established she is in Whaddon

RG 14/7955 1911 Registration Sub-District: Winslow Civil Parish, Township or Place: Whaddon RD 147 RS 1 ED 3

She lives in a cottage, without a street name.

[california dreamin]

Hi all,

I don't know if anyone has mentioned this, but I recently attended one of FindMyPast talks on the 1939 Register.  We were told the reason this RG reference number was removed was because they became aware that data was being 'harvested' in bulk and that CD's were beginning to appear for sale on the internet with 1939 information.  We were also told that there is continual weekly updating going on and it also sounds like others in the household (apart from those redacted) will start to appear when you are looking at a household

CD

[Ewan]

Hello

Is it still possible to search using these tips, as I can't find any reference number

Thanks

I have been asked to start a new topic as my original post is now lost in the middle of a very long topic

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 in the URL the button leads to.

(this is all dependent on the type of device you are using and the platform, I'm using a tower and windows 7, tablets and androids may display differently)

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


and this from davidft

I tried this and at first it did not work. The number I tried putting in was 27561, Arggg so for anyone who doesn't pick it up the fifth digit of the piece reference is alphabetical so I should have been entereing 2756I rather than 27561 and then it does work.

Just seen the above post looks like reference numbers have been removed, please can any one confirm.  Thanks