1939 National Register

[clairec666]

I wonder why my mother's record is open.......she died in 2002!

Nanny Jan

I think they've been opening some more recently by matching them up with the death index. My grandmother (1927-2000) has appeared in the last couple of weeks.

[nanny jan]

I found mum with her parents on the day the register went on line.
 I also sent a proof of death (another line)......the wrong record was opened and I am still waiting for the correct one.  How did they confuse a death cert for a male for his sister, who is still living! 

[LizzieL]

What dates did they die? It seems that Findmypast have started matching up records from the 1939 register with the death index (which goes up to 2007), so if your father and aunt died before 2007 there's a chance that their records have been opened since you last searched, or will be opened soon.

FindMyPast claims to have deaths up to 2007, but I have not found this to be the case. My uncle died in Jan 2007 and my father in March 2007 and neither are listed on FindMyPast death index so neither have been opened on the 1939 register.

[ScouseBoy]

What dates did they die? It seems that Findmypast have started matching up records from the 1939 register with the death index (which goes up to 2007), so if your father and aunt died before 2007 there's a chance that their records have been opened since you last searched, or will be opened soon.

FindMyPast claims to have deaths up to 2007, but I have not found this to be the case. My uncle died in Jan 2007 and my father in March 2007 and neither are listed on FindMyPast death index so neither have been opened on the 1939 register.

     They "may"  have a magnetic tape  or a disc  with them all listed on?   But they "may"   not have processed it yet, possibly?

[clairec666]

FindMyPast claims to have deaths up to 2007, but I have not found this to be the case. My uncle died in Jan 2007 and my father in March 2007 and neither are listed on FindMyPast death index so neither have been opened on the 1939 register.

I didn't know that... they used to have deaths up to 2006, and the 2007 deaths were added later, I just assumed they were complete!

[LizzieL]

I have just checked Ancestry and they have both of them listed, so they are really up to date to 2007.

[Connie Sparrow]

Under the previous system the 1939 Register Team of The Health and Social Care Information Centre would likely have found them with name and date of birth. The HSCIC service was discontinued because FindMyPast were supposed to take over that role. I got my uncle's record from HSCIC I knew he was an evacuee in Wales but didn't know where exactly. Name and date of birth was enough to find him. Incidently his record is still closed on FindMyPast's 1939 Register.

The HSCIC was where I got the information from in the first place and there was no charge then either!  I gave his name and DOB and provided proof of my father's death but they didn't send anything, maybe because he'd already been evacuated. I knew he had been but didn't mention it as I wasn't aware at the time he might have already been sent to Bridgwater.

[Connie Sparrow]

What dates did they die? It seems that Findmypast have started matching up records from the 1939 register with the death index (which goes up to 2007), so if your father and aunt died before 2007 there's a chance that their records have been opened since you last searched, or will be opened soon.

Your aunt should appear with her maiden name in brackets after her married name, and searching for either surname should work (provided her record isn't still closed).

My father died in 1978.  He wasn't on FindMyPast's 1939 Register when I last looked on 30 Dec.  I found his sister's death via the Probate Service because it's so recent, 2011.

[Connie Sparrow]

The Register will only show those people who have died, where the death was notified to the people running the Register (until 1991).

Apparently some deaths weren't notified?
Hospital deaths may have been lost "in the system"?
Some doctors, not wishing to lose their Government grants, "forgot" to notify some deaths?!

That is positively depressing

He did die in hospital. I have his death cert so he shouldn't have been lost in the system but he was in the Royal Northern, which didn't have a good rep at the time. It just happened to be the nearest hospital at the time