1939 Register - ancestry

[Kit]

with images.

Just found this out of FB.

I could not find it on the card catalogue. Someone suggested looking in categories when you search.

[ElizabethHerts]

Here is the link:

https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61596

[kiterunner]

Ooh, exciting! And it has a browse facility. I'm guessing the index is provided by Findmypast, but haven't confirmed that yet. It is in ancestry's card catalogue now, though I'm not sure why it says there are 45,876,644 records? FMP has 33,836,052 at the moment and only claims a total of 41 million including the records which are currently closed.

[Kit]

Thanks for the link. I couldn't find one nor was it in the card catalogue.

The images are slightly different to FMP, I think. There is a small part of the right hand page for the records. Most have nothing, some have some comments.

[kiterunner]

Okay, the index doesn't appear to be provided by FMP, since my grandfather comes up as Alexander L R Bristow on ancestry but is correctly indexed as Alexander C R Bristow on FMP.

[JayG]

Yes I don't think the index is from FMP either as of the few I've checked have different transcriptions.

[Merry]

Okay, the index doesn't appear to be provided by FMP, since my grandfather comes up as Alexander L R Bristow on ancestry but is correctly indexed as Alexander C R Bristow on FMP.

And the whole page of mistranscribed entries I'm still waiting for fmp to correct after three years (or is it four?) is right on ancestry :)

[kiterunner]

Thanks for the link. I couldn't find one nor was it in the card catalogue.

The images are slightly different to FMP, I think. There is a small part of the right hand page for the records. Most have nothing, some have some comments.

I don't have a current FMP sub to check, but I thought their images had that too.

[kiterunner]

Just realised I can view my previously-viewed images on FMP without a sub, so I checked, and yes, FMP does also have the part of the right hand page.

[kiterunner]

And the whole page of mistranscribed entries I'm still waiting for fmp to correct after three years (or is it four?) is right on ancestry :)

That's good to know!

[Phoenix]

So... my father is there once (twice on FMP)
One aunt correctly visible, one aunt incorrectly visible (as FMP)
Mum is still blocked, incorrectly.
Do I conclude that the redacting is external?

[kiterunner]

Yes, I reckon that FMP have supplied the images to ancestry with the redactions already made, and ancestry have made their index from the redacted images.

[JayG]

Yes, I reckon that FMP have supplied the images to ancestry with the redactions already made, and ancestry have made their index from the redacted images.

Not according to Ancestry the images are from TNA, but no doubt those images are from FMP anyway!


https://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=61596

About 1939 England and Wales Register

Redactions

Images have been redacted to protect the privacy of those still alive and we will be annually adding records for those with birth dates over 100 years or if a record of the death has been reported to The National Archives. Images will also be updated to reflect the opening of the record. All indexes have been created from redacted images as provided by The National Archives and as such, some indexes may not include all information as originally recorded, where it is obscured from view.

[kiterunner]

But having said that, I'm looking at a household with two open records and two closed, where FMP says there are 4 open and two closed. I doubt that ancestry went through the same process of matching up partial transcriptons and closing records as FMP did, so I am guessing that it has taken them a while to index the images supplied by FMP and that their images are out of date compared to FMP, i.e. don't show the records which have been opened by FMP since they were supplied.

[kiterunner]

Sorry, we were posting at the same time, Jay. Yes, I would think the redacted images supplied by TNA came from FMP.

[kiterunner]

I've just seen on Facebook that ancestry are giving free access to the 1939 Register until Sunday 13th May.

[kiterunner]

Ooh, I think I've found my grandfather's cousin who I never found on FMP.
edit - and now I have found her on the 1911 census with the person she was with in 1939, who turns out to be her sister-in-law's brother, so definitely the right people.

[Tilly Mint]

Oh wow......I always wanted to know where my Dad went to when he was orphaned, family always said he went to live in a big house but I could never find this info. Some kind soul had a look on the 1939 and said it looked like he was with his aunt in Warwickshire but the record was closed..........I've just found him on the link provided!!! Happy Days

[maggie_4_7]

Well I waited ages for 5 records to be opened having contacted FMP I never heard a thing back from them - I checked constantly and nothing I gave up in the end and completely forgot about it and I see on Ancestry they are all opened now :)

[Kit]

That's good news Maggie. My Grandma's record has been opened on ancestry. It probably is on FMP but I haven't checked.

I still can't find my great grandmother though. Her husband is on the register but she is not with him. Her only child was married a few months later and I can't believe she missed the wedding and we can't see her on the only group wedding photo.

[kiterunner]

It's showing as having been updated a couple of days ago. Don't know what exactly the update is though.