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Apparently so, but it seems there is some kind of process whereby people who were under 25 in 1939 but are known to have died since then can / will be included. But I don't know what the details of this are, whether it will work like it does now when you order a copy of an entry and you have to provide evidence of deaths to see the individual entries for people, or if there will be a team of people going through the entries and checking who has died, for which they would presumably need access to the NHS Registration Books (the National Register numbers were used as NHS numbers when the NHS was set up, and so it is possible to link people on the 1939 Register with the NHS registrations which show whether someone has died - though I guess if they emigrated, or were not identified when they died, their death might not be on the system.) Maybe the NHS are going to provide FMP with just the registration numbers of those who are marked as deceased on their system and then FMP can run those numbers against the 1939 register? |
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I emailed FMP yesterday about how it was going to work in regard to the 100 year rule - no reply as yet.
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Keep us posted, Ann! Potentially this could solve a few mysteries for me.
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Is it all of the UK or just England and Wales?
I know that you can request this info already and it is a lot cheaper to get the record of someone who was in Scotland in 1939 than someone who was living in England - about a quarter of the price. I also think that the Scottish version of the register is viewable at the Scotland's People centre in Edinburgh. |
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This is the information on how to order an extract from the Scottish Register (only if the person is deceased):
http://www.gro-scotland.gov.uk/natio...-register.html According to Chris Paton's blog, the Findmypast database will just cover England and Wales. |
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I got an email with an update on their progress:
So far we've: Safely conserved more than 3300 volumes Scanned over 487,000 images Transcribed over 31,000 names Their website says there are 7,000 volumes and 40,000,000 entries, so it looks as though they still have a long way to go. I wonder whether they will launch county by county or wait till it is complete? |
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As I'm looking for London, I can't imagine it will make much difference to me. Best Mate needs to know her granny's birthplace. We have her in 1911, but as a lodger. Fairly sure we know who she is, but she completely re-invented herself on arrival in London.
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Looking at their website anyone born within the last 100 years will not be viewable and they will regularly update this as time goes on.
That means I wont see my grandparents for a while, which is sad as Grandma died over 40 years ago.
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The BBC is reporting that the 1939 Register is expected to be released next month.
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I have read that they will be using pension records and NI numbers to estabish who has died. Can't see it myself. Why would the government make that information available to a commercial company?
Sadly, I can't join in the excitement over this release as I doubt it will tell me anything I don't already know - all my mysteries are much further back than 1939. Looking forward to hearing about other people's brick walls falling over, though. OC |
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