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Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« on: Friday 13 November 15 12:14 GMT (UK) »
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"We have investigated your request regarding evidence of death and on this occasion, the record shall remain closed

"The reason for this is the name is not listed in the household."

Excellent! A negative result is still a result.

So I now have two new research questions: (a) where was the person I'm looking for in Sept 1939, if he wasn't in that household, and (b) who is the mystery redacted person?

As fun as this guessing game is, I'm hoping the other death certs I submitted come back with more positive results.

Has anyone successfully had a black box removed and a record opened yet?

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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #1 on: Friday 13 November 15 13:29 GMT (UK) »
It's good to know that they are turning requests around relatively quickly.

I'm keeping an eye on the transcription errors I reported on Tuesday. As they were reported at TNA I won't get a notifiction.

You may never know where your person of interest was until their 100th birthday plus one day, the same for the redacted person.

If they were newborns in Sept 1939, you've got a long wait.
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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #2 on: Friday 13 November 15 14:37 GMT (UK) »
Dawn - did you infer the redacted individuals will appear the day after their 100th birthday? My father would have been 100 years and two days today - and he's not there yet

Steve
Bumstead - London, Suffolk
Plant, Woolnough, Wase, Suffolk
Flexney, Godfrey, Burson, Hobby -  Oxfordshire
Street, Mitchell - Gloucestershire
Horwood, Heale Drew - Bristol
Gibbs, Gait, Noyes, Peters, Padfield, Board, York, Rogers, Horler, Heale, Emery, Clavey, Mogg, - Somerset
Fook, Snell - Devon
M(a)cDonald, Yuell, Gollan, McKenzie - Rosshire
McLennan, Mackintosh - Inverness
Williams, Jones - Angelsey & Caernarvon
Campbell, McMartin, McLellan, McKercher, Perthshire

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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #3 on: Friday 13 November 15 14:38 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Old Bristolian on Friday 13 November 15 14:37 GMT (UK)
Dawn - did you infer the redacted individuals will appear the day after their 100th birthday? My father would have been 100 years and two days today - and he's not there yet

Steve

I think I remember reading that FindMyPast would unredact closed records once a week.

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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #4 on: Friday 13 November 15 14:49 GMT (UK) »
pstainthorp - your mystery person may be completely unrelated, a lodger possibly? Can't know for sure until their record is opened. Remember, if you've already used credits to buy that record, you won't have to pay again to see new people as they are revealed :)
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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #5 on: Friday 13 November 15 16:23 GMT (UK) »
I'm waiting to hear.
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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #6 on: Friday 13 November 15 17:00 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: clairec666 on Friday 13 November 15 14:49 GMT (UK)
Remember, if you've already used credits to buy that record, you won't have to pay again to see new people as they are revealed :)
Not confident of this being added to a subscription before they reach 100 years and a day then?  ;D

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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #7 on: Friday 13 November 15 17:03 GMT (UK) »
Howard , Viney , Kingsman, Pain/e, Rainer/ Rayner, Barham, George, Wakeling (Catherine), Vicary (Frederick)   all LDN area/suburbs  Ottley/ MDX,
Henman/ KNT   Gandy/LDN before 1830  Burgess/LDN
Barham/SFK   Rainer/CAN (Toronto) Gillians/CAN  Sturgeon/CAN (Vancouver)
Bailey/LDN Page/KNT   Paling/WA (var)



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Re: Just had my first 1939 Register "Evidence of death request" back from Findmypast
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 19 November 15 18:47 GMT (UK) »
I'm not having a great deal of luck with these.

I submitted 4 death certs for 4 closed records.

The first came back as "The reason for this is the name is not listed in the household" as I've already said.

The second has been opened - hooray! And I've learnt some new information about a relative - double hooray.

The third and fourth: I received emails telling me the records have been opened, but when I checked they haven't. Findmypast have just told me they have run into "technical" problems opening some closed records, but that they expect to have those problems fixed by tomorrow.
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