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Old 31-05-18, 11:05
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Anyone else finding discrepancies in the dob on the register?

Had a number with the day wrong ie 7th instead of 8th but have now found a number with the year different too. ie 1907 instead of 1908 or other way around.
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Old 31-05-18, 12:42
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Yes, I've found several that were one year out.
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Yes, I've had a few a few days or year out.
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Old 01-06-18, 09:12
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Yes, not just errors in transcription, errors made in 1939, (and my uncle who died in 1962 is redacted).
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Old 01-06-18, 12:25
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I meant errors in the information held, not transcriptions.

My 2g grandmother appears to have lied quite significantly as the date and year are nothing like her birth certificate but she is the only one of that name on the register with a 10 year check and I know she died in 1941.
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I meant errors in the information held, not transcriptions.

My 2g grandmother appears to have lied quite significantly as the date and year are nothing like her birth certificate but she is the only one of that name on the register with a 10 year check and I know she died in 1941.
Apart from there not being anyone else, can you be sure the entry is for the right person? Have you looked for a different death that fits the lady on the 1939 Register (in case she is someone else!).

My grandmother usually knocked three or four years from her age, but in 1939 she knocked off six years! She did always state Nov 8th for her birthday though.
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Old 02-06-18, 09:09
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I've looked at thousands of records now - the 1939 register, censuses, parish registers, bmd certificates, tombstones, Wills, letters, settlement disputes. I've found errors in all of them. It's part of being human. I've got a few birthdates (either the day or the year) that are slightly out on the 1939 census although mostly they have tallied with information I already have.
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Old 02-06-18, 14:39
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Yes, found a few myself. One of my mum's uncles put his baptism date down as his birthday, so I wonder how common that would have been.

I've noticed several that are a year out but with the correct date, though.
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Old 03-06-18, 11:08
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Apart from there not being anyone else, can you be sure the entry is for the right person? Have you looked for a different death that fits the lady on the 1939 Register (in case she is someone else!).

My grandmother usually knocked three or four years from her age, but in 1939 she knocked off six years! She did always state Nov 8th for her birthday though.
I can't remember now but it took me a few tries of looking to decide she was mine and not that she was not on the register.
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Old 03-06-18, 12:02
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I can't remember now but it took me a few tries of looking to decide she was mine and not that she was not on the register.
There are probably plenty of people who appear not to be on the register when they are! There's about a dozen pages surrounding my grandparents entries where no one had the right name transcribed when the register was released. As far as I know only a few names have been corrected (The names belong to real people who appear elsewhere in the same area) despite a lot of emails sent by me! I only recognised my grandfather because I happened to search his exact dob and occupation and got a hit in the right place but with a completely different name!
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