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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #117 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 10:14 GMT (UK) »
Can anyone confirm if it's available on the free library version or is it not included?


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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #118 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 10:48 GMT (UK) »
It is supposed to be, according to FindMyPast.   

We have a few visitors to our Research Centre anticipating finding family members at their next visit.

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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #119 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 10:55 GMT (UK) »
I think I might have to unnotify new replies to this thread ,I need all the time I have to do 1939 look ups.  ;D ;D ;D
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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #120 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 11:00 GMT (UK) »
After a lot of searching I eventually found my husband's great grandmother.

The register clearly shows her as female, widowed, born 1866.

The transcription shows her as male, married, year of birth unknown.
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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #121 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 11:26 GMT (UK) »
I am really surprised to find my dad and his twin brother on there.  My dad died in 1982 and his twin in 2006.  Both would be 90 if still alive. I thought records under 100 years old were redacted and needed a death certificate to open them??
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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #122 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 11:30 GMT (UK) »
I've just found a relation where the transcription says "Certified assistant schoolmistress. Retired on mariner."   When I checked the image it is obviously "retired on marriage"  ;D
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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #123 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 12:08 GMT (UK) »
I am really surprised to find my dad and his twin brother on there.  My dad died in 1982 and his twin in 2006.  Both would be 90 if still alive. I thought records under 100 years old were redacted and needed a death certificate to open them??

Some records have been matched up with the death index, which means lots of records that wouldn't have been opened yet are now open.
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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #124 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 12:17 GMT (UK) »
I am really surprised to find my dad and his twin brother on there.  My dad died in 1982 and his twin in 2006.  Both would be 90 if still alive. I thought records under 100 years old were redacted and needed a death certificate to open them??

Some records have been matched up with the death index, which means lots of records that wouldn't have been opened yet are now open.

That is fantastic!!!  I've found out all sorts in such a short period of time, I even found a great aunt living next door to her future husband so now I know how they met  :D

Without going back through all of these posts do we have a 1939 Register date as we do for the censuses?  If so, it might help me to pin down a death of somebody with a common name.
Williams, Owens, Pritchard, Povall, Banks, Brown.

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Re: What! The 1939 Register For Free!
« Reply #125 on: Tuesday 16 February 16 12:18 GMT (UK) »
I've just found my great grandad living with one of his sons and family,but not transcribed,no wonder he didn't appear before. It's difficult to amend a transcription when one person has been missed off,but I did it by adding a comment to the family page.
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