1939 Register up and running (Part 3)

[groom]

Could you eliminate your aunt by asking her where she was living in 1939?

[Blue70]

I had a problem locating one particular address using the street name and county borough name. Instead of putting in the street name and county borough I tried putting in the street name and county name and success! A number of addresses appeared in an additional set of results underneath the other results I was getting before. For some reason a number of addresses were not appearing in the search results so try playing around with the search if you are missing addresses.


Blue

[LizzieL]

Unfortunately she suffers from dementia and can't really communicate any more. The aunt who died in 2009 was born in 1916, so was the most likely to have left home by 1939. The living aunt and deceased uncle would have been 17 and 15 respectively in 1939. I guess it would the youngest (my uncle), but would a 17 year old girl have left home in 1939 - not quite like Victorian times when a girl of that age might be a servant living in her employer's house.

[ScouseBoy]

The address search lists the house numbers in the street, odd numbers first then odd numbers added later, followed by even numbers then even numbers added later.

Some additional addresses (those who did not respond to the registration at the time) were not added to this register but added to the later register these are not available.

Cheers
Guy

  Here in North Wales, currently in some roads most of the houses do not have numbers, they only have names.  and outlying rural farms and houses mostly have names only and no numbers.   I wonder how some of the Welsh Language names have been mashed up by the transcribers?

[ReadyDale]

Thanks Guy. Hadn't spotted that before! However, it does confirm what I keep telling FindMyPast, the houses of my grandparents and immediate neighbours are missing from the register.

As the transcriptions (and therefore the searchable index) is a transcription of what is actually on the register, it might be worth looking under abbreviations.
For instance, my father currently lives in a reasonably long road (c.250 houses). Most of those addresses are found under xxxxxx Crescent, my Dad's is under xxxxxx Cres and a few under xxxxxx C.   So for Road try also Rd, for Street try Str or St, etc, etc, etc.
Might not help, but you never know.
Also, just because they don't appear on the search, doesn't mean they are "missing from the register", just missing from the index (or incorrectly indexed). I couldn't get my GGrandparents to appear, no matter what seach terms I put in. So I found some people up the street who did appear, then changed the Item number one up and/or down and sure enough one of them consistantly errored, because of bad indexing. I told FindMyPast, they checked and confirmed I was right) and 24-hours later they appeared using the same search criteria as used before. 

[jillruss]

Does anyone have any evidence that FindMyPast do actually get back to you when they ask you to be patient as they're looking into your particular query? If so, how long are they taking?

Has no one had a reply back from them then?

[jillruss]

Some additional addresses (those who did not respond to the registration at the time) were not added to this register but added to the later register these are not available.

Cheers
Guy

Tell me more, Guy! I have said this all along but no one (to my knowledge) has ever admitted that a later register exists. Surely this will account for many, many 'missing' individuals and addresses on FindMyPast's 1939 register? Why have they kept quiet about this (rhetorical question: I think I can guess why!). Presumably this later register is only available at the NA?

If only this had been made clear from the start. 

[Blue70]

The address search lists the house numbers in the street, odd numbers first then odd numbers added later, followed by even numbers then even numbers added later.

Some additional addresses (those who did not respond to the registration at the time) were not added to this register but added to the later register these are not available.

Cheers
Guy

  Here in North Wales, currently in some roads most of the houses do not have numbers, they only have names.  and outlying rural farms and houses mostly have names only and no numbers.   I wonder how some of the Welsh Language names have been mashed up by the transcribers?

My uncle was an evacuee with a Welsh household on the 1939 Register. I got his details 2 years ago. On FindMyPast he is redacted. It was difficult finding the household using the address search but I did it eventually. Anyone searching houses with names, particularly Welsh names may struggle using the address search.


Blue

[clairec666]

My uncle was an evacuee with a Welsh household on the 1939 Register. I got his details 2 years ago. On FindMyPast he is redacted. It was difficult finding the household using the address search but I did it eventually. Anyone searching houses with names, particularly Welsh names may struggle using the address search.

Blue

I would imagine a lot of evacuees would be difficult to un-redact... I don't know the exact address my grandmother was evacuated to, and she's not here to ask (of course if she was alive I wouldn't be able to un-redact her!)

Looks like there'll be a lot of records which remain redacted until the 100 years have passed.