1939 Register - updates?

[SmallTownGirl]

Hi

Since it was released on FindMyPast, has it been updated, by disclosing more names? 

I mean, there are people on it who weren't 100 years old when the list was originally released, say born 1915 or 1916, but now are, so are their names automatically being revealed/disclosed or are they still hidden? 

Hope this makes sense!

STG

[dawnsh]

The list is regularly updated, I think it's weekly, maybe more quickly than that if you supply a death cert.

When the 100th birthday plus one day is reached, the records are opened if they are still closed.

FindMyPast have also worked through the death indexes after 1991 and where the names are obviously identifiable, records have also been opened.

Some of my fathers cousins born in the earlier 1930's have appeared and I haven't sent in their death certs.

[dawnsh]

Just checked back and there were 28million at launch, there are now 33million and there should be 41million by 2039!

[SmallTownGirl]

Thanks v.much 

STG

[venelow]

Hi SmallTownGirl

My mother would have been 100 at the beginning of May last year. I checked at the beginning of June but I did not find her opened record until late July. So I think it takes some time before opened records get uploaded.

You may have to check a few times before your subject appears.

Venelow

[SmallTownGirl]

Hi SmallTownGirl

My mother would have been 100 at the beginning of May last year. I checked at the beginning of June but I did not find her opened record until late July. So I think it takes some time before opened records get uploaded.

You may have to check a few times before your subject appears.

Venelow

Thanks, I'll keep checking back. 

STG

[groom]

Yes, it is definitely updated and includes people once they are 100 years plus a day. This happened with both of my aunts - unfortunately they were both still alive at the time. FindMyPast did offer to close their records again, but neither were bothered, so left them open.

[Deirdre784]

I looked for a work colleague's father-in-law a few days after his 100th birthday last year and he wasn't there (though she doesn't know exactly where he was living). Still can't find him, even searching on his exact date of birth. Guess he could be one of those with a poor transcription 🤔

[SmallTownGirl]

I looked for a work colleague's father-in-law a few days after his 100th birthday last year and he wasn't there (though she doesn't know exactly where he was living). Still can't find him, even searching on his exact date of birth. Guess he could be one of those with a poor transcription 🤔

Unless he was in the services, so he won't be listed at all? 

STG