1939 Register up and running (Part 3)

[CarolA3]

If you look at a record from each one of them, won't you eventually find a reference close to the one you've got?

But haven't FindMyPast removed the reference from the preview, and also altered the URLs so that refs can't be extracted from them?  Or have I misunderstood what you're doing

Carol

[StevieSteve]

Yes, but Dawn can look at the records at Kew so presumably the references will be available in the actual images somewhere

[dawnsh]

I have found out where she was living, I asked my mum and she thought it was Mursley, turns out to be Whaddon, but will check to see what is 'visible' at Kew next visit.

If anyone wants more look-ups watch this space, it won't be next week but could be the week after,  w/c 30th November

[jonwarrn]

I have found out where she was living, I asked my mum and she thought it was Mursley, turns out to be Whaddon, but will check to see what is 'visible' at Kew next visit.

But you said previously that you thought she was in Whaddon
and you gave the ref
2156e/002

Kelly's Directory of Buckinghamshire 1939 is on Ancestry. Is that no help in identifying the village?
Whaddon (image 306) has a small number of people listed, including -
Thos. Arth. Birch (grocer & post office), who comes up on 2156e/004
Clarence Chas. Binks (shopkpr), who comes up on 2156e/007
Haven't gone through them all.
John

[dawnsh]

I did John, but I have been specifically asking FindMyPast to clarify the entry for me which it turns out is something they are unwilling to do.

The fact is that village names will be missing for lots of other people also and we have now got to come up with ways of establishing where people actually were.

I'm not a frequent user of Ancestry so didn't appeciate they had the Kelly's directory. Thank you.

It's most probably tips like yours and others that come along in future which will be beneficial.

Others might find this TNA link useful as well as it shows the enumeration district numbers used in the 1911 census.

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

Select the county then the district for a list of possible places based on the district numners shown in the 1939 results.

[Ruskie]

(Was not sure which 1939 register thread to post this, so please move to a more appropriate one, or delete if it has been mentioned elsewhere)

I just received a "special offer" email from FindMyPast, as all who are signed up will have done:

Find your family and save over 40%

For one week only, you can unlock your family's household in the 1939 Register for just £3.99 with your exclusive code below (just for you lovely subscribers) - that’s over 40% off the usual price of £6.95.

I wonder what we can read into that?

Maybe not as many as anticipated are taking up the original offer? Surprise surprise.

If I had just paid full price to see several of my families I think I would be miffed about this ... 

I'm not sure the timing is good and think they might have been better leaving this a while till the initial excitement died down .... There's nothing worse that buying something full price and the next week it goes on sale. 

[Deirdre784]

I just had that email too but having used up my initial 5 (with disappointing results) I had one main family group left to 'open' but was going to wait until the cost came down or it became part of the subscription. However I took the £3.99 offer

I've read of people who've had great success with the register, so I must be unlucky. I know where my parents (closed) and grandparents were, and my husband's but had been hoping to fill in gaps on his side of the family. Annoyingly they were either born between 1911 and 1915 and have left home, or were born after Sept 1915 so are closed. 

[groom]

I had that email as well, but haven't used my initial offers of 25% and 10% yet as I unlocked 3 families using some credits that I had left from previous offers. As I'm lucky enough to know where most of my family were in 1939, I'm not bothered about unlocking more at the moment as I can get enough information by looking at the free 1939. I wonder how many people have done the same - perhaps the uptake hasn't been as large as FindMyPast anticipated.

[KGarrad]

I've not really looked at all.

I know where my family were in 1939.
Those people I was unsure of (2 of them, I think!) I managed to find in a free index search.

Both of my grandfathers died in 1940 - so I knew where they were.
My grandmothers and my parents were easily found where I expected them.
I have few aunts and uncles - and they, too were where I expected.

So I don't feel a need to rush in and spend money I don't have!