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How accurate are birth dates on the 1939 Register?
For my one-place study of a parish in the East Midlands, I transcribed all entries in the 1939 Register. I then individually cross-referenced the birth date of each entry with a secondary source (...
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Determining the area covered by an Enumeration District (ED) on the 1939 Register?
There might be ED maps at The National Archives, but so far, I haven't been able to determine a good archive reference for them.
Searching on Discovery, the catalog of The National Archives, for the ...
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What's on the right-hand page of the 1939 Register?
In the Lost Cousins newsletter dated 1st March 2016, Peter Calver posted his own entry from the NHS Central Register, from one of the later registers. In the newsletter, he shows that the right-hand ...
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What's on the right-hand page of the 1939 Register?
The omitted columns are #11 and #12. On FMP's Original Forms page, the Enumerator's Instructions sheet states:
Column 11 - The enumerator may be instructed not to transcribe the schedule entries as ...
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Was the 1939 Register really updated after the end of National Registration?
If you look at the page 1939 Register Service on the Health & Social Care Information Centre website, the site says:
The 1939 Register Service (cost recovery) enables you to request data
held ...
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What's on the right-hand page of the 1939 Register?
Peter Calver's special edition of his Lost Cousins newsletter shows a screen grab that he took from a FindMyPast promotional video - see the heading "What aren't we seeing?" in the linked newsletter (...
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What happened to the original household schedules used to produce the 1939 Register?
Audrey Collins' blog post National registration day: 29 September 1939 says:
The completed household schedules were collected and returned to each
local National Registration Office, but they did ...
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Was the 1939 Register really updated after the end of National Registration?
I asked this question directly on Facebook.
The response I recieved is that, yes: "The Register was updated until 1991 when it ceased to be a working document".
This means that for married women, "...
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What does schedule number mean on 1939 Register?
The 1939 Register, much like the decennial censuses before it, was actually compiled from household schedules. The enumerator dropped off the schedule to each house a few days before National ...
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Fact type to enter for the 1939 Register?
I would say that the answer depends on what you are going to use your data for. In my case I enter the 1939 as a census but when I produce reports for general consumption, I omit all types of census ...
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Locating Welsh 1939 Register information that is referred to in "See INSTRUCTIONS" column
From The National Archives' Research Guide on the 1939 Register:
8. What does it mean when an entry is crossed out and marked ‘See page…?’
These refer to ‘continuation entries’ where the line in the
‘...
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