Preview search tips for the 1939 Register before you buy

[chris_49]

Guy, the question was sort of rhetorical. Maybe I've been unlucky in not finding so many of mine via the conventional searches. But I like Claire's idea of revealing the piece numbers to people who've actually paid up, sadly I think that'd be difficult to implement. I'm just mad at myself for not noting down full details of searches for people I (thought I) had found.

[BumbleB]

dawnsh - I don't think that villages are named - full stop.  I have opened records for one set of grandparents, and my parents - both living in the same village.  The heading is perfectly clear and just shows the Borough, UD or RD.  There is no indication anywhere on the page as to the name of the village.  My grandparents are shown as living at "The Post Office, Village".  My parents are shown as living at "Meadowholme".

[dawnsh]

But I've seen the image for my greatgrandafther and he is living in the village of Steventon, Abingdon RD

(BTW I've just had a reply from FindMyPast confirming what you've written.

I've asked them to scroll through the previous pages until the name of the village can be found.

There isn't a scroll page facility at TNA)

[dawnsh]

Northwich 447 might tie up with someone in the 1911 census still living a the same address in 1939

[BumbleB]

I was just saying that for the two images I have opened, for my grandparents and parents, there is no indication on either page that the "Village" is in fact Little Budworth.  Addresses are given merely as the name of a house or farm, and occasionally the added name of a Lane.

Yes, you're quite right that the Registration District number is the same - BUT neither my parents nor my grandparents were living in the village in 1911 - they were all in Halifax.

[dawnsh]

Exactly the same situation with my grandmothe's entry.

so if you didn't know they were in Little Budworth, how would you find out?

[Blue70]

I'll probably buy one of these records at some point in the near future. I've already got two transcripts from HSCIC 1939 Register Team. One 'uncle evacuee' is redacted on the FindMyPast version so I'm not tackling that one. The other 'Manx-born' one is transcribed on FindMyPast with the name spelt wrong, will that spelling appear anywhere on the image? If it does it'll be annoying. I'm thinking of getting other great grandparents, the great grandfather being of interest as his birth was not registered although he was born in England. It'll be good to have something with his date of birth on and as a good freesearcher I know that the birth date we thought was right for him is on the 1939 Register record.


Blue

[Sloe Gin]

Bear in mind that if the year of birth has been mistranscribed, there will be redacted records which shouldn't be redacted, and vice versa. This would make some households appear confusing!

I couldn't find my grandmother, so I put in her date of birth.  She still didn't appear in the search results, but her son did.  He was born in the 1920s, and died after 1991, so he shouldn't show up.  Looks like their birthdates got transposed.

I'm not getting the second name now, although I did for a little while a couple of days back. 
It's really not worth my while pursuing this now, it's too difficult to find people and all too often the ones I want to know about will be redacted, even though they are long dead. 
So FindMyPast won't be getting any of my money.

[chris_49]

dawnsh - I don't think that villages are named - full stop.  I have opened records for one set of grandparents, and my parents - both living in the same village.  The heading is perfectly clear and just shows the Borough, UD or RD.  There is no indication anywhere on the page as to the name of the village.  My grandparents are shown as living at "The Post Office, Village".  My parents are shown as living at "Meadowholme".

I find this - put in Cubbington and all you get is people on Cubbington Road in Leamington/Lillington. Put in Offchurch and you just get households on Offchurch Road in Cubbington! For a common name for a village road, like High Road, or for a long road like the Welsh Road (which goes through three counties) it's a nightmare.

I think the rule, if there is one, is that villages aren't named but hamlets are (sometimes by using the street box).