1939 Register up and running (Part 2)

[loo]

There are obviously a ton of errors to be addressed.
Do people think this is an indexing issue or an (old) transcribing issue?
I'm still having trouble figuring out how my grandparents and presumably their children whom I can't see came to be listed under the (unrelated) next door neighbours' surname.
Sorry for the confusion.  This has probably been addressed somewhere already.
It seems hard to justify such a high prevalence of fairly major errors.

[jillruss]

Can anyone figure out what (K) means after someone's name?

loo, I think the biggest 'error' is that they've pushed this over and over again as being all but complete and its obvious from talking to friends and reading comments on forums such as this that there are many, many missing people and addresses. I've asked FindMyPast about this and, until I get a reply, I shan't be spending any money on it.

[groom]

I've asked FindMyPast about this and, until I get a reply, I shan't be spending any money on it.

Don't hold your breath, it looks as if we are all getting a standard reply!

[coombs]

I think that is how the cookie crumbles, you express your views and just get an automated response and no proper response by someone. At least if we give proof of death and the person is un redacted, then anyone else can see them.

[ReadyDale]

I've asked FindMyPast about this and, until I get a reply, I shan't be spending any money on it.

Don't hold your breath, it looks as if we are all getting a standard reply!

I have to be fair, I had a query about a missing section of a street. So I contacted them via "live chat". They checked the details I gave them, confimed that they replicated the problem and would get to it ASAP. Next day it was all fixed 

[groom]

Might have to try that - what details did they ask for?

I know my grandparents exact address and who else would have been in the house. I also know the names of their neighbours who are also missing, would that be enough?

[johnP-bedford]

Can anyone figure out what (K) means after someone's name?

Is it written in green ink? Could be initial of another first name.
I have one with a C which I think is start of second name Clement and another where Joyce is written in green after the names which is her second name.

[ReadyDale]

Might have to try that - what details did they ask for?

I know my grandparents exact address and who else would have been in the house. I also know the names of their neighbours who are also missing, would that be enough?

I was in the lucky position of having access to the 1939 electoral roll, so after searching in vain for mine, then also having no luck with immediate neighbours, I tried those a little further down the street. When these came good I copied down all those that were in that "item" and plotted their addresses (from the E.R.), then adjusted the "item" number up one and down one. One worked fine, but went the wrong direction. The other errored. I now had the full reference for the "item" (showing 40-50 people) that was missing. I did all the searches with this new bit of info and still errors.
When "chatting" to FindMyPast, I told them all the methods I'd tried (person search, address search and now item search, etc), which they then verified (in case I was making it up or was incompitent!! ) and accepted they needed to do something.
I guess it's harder to fob someone off when they are hanging on the line (albeit a virtual one)

[Norrette]

I've analysed the three pages I have which are supposedly linked. 

Problem 1) is that the name of the village or street is sometimes spelled (and therefore indexed) differently for people on the same page and same street.

2) The schedule numbers seem to skip - possibly because families under ~25 are in intervening  households. This means, if there is a change of family you cannot tell. The enumerator(?) did not write the schedule number on each line - so a blank represented a ditto. Giving this sort of issue : did the section of redacted lines belong to my family or not?

3) The three images I could download had a missing file ie 7,9 & 10.  I wondered where or why is 8 missing.

Point 1 leads me to believe that these were transcribed by OCR or by a group of contractors who did not understand how the documents were put together.