1939 register available elsewhere

[emmteeyess]

If I understand the arrangements correctly, there may be more closed records on Ancestry than FMP but there can't possibly be fewer.

That's because Ancestry don't have the mechanism to open closed records.

That seems to be right. Ancestry must have gone back to some previous 'base level' of images and from a fb forum I'm on it also seems that Ancestry have had to do their own transcriptions as it varies from FMP's (and from reality) in a number of cases.

Cheers, MTS

[Lesley Robertson]

Well, that's actually useful since it's convenient if a transcription looks odd on one of them to be able to check it against the other!

[wimsey]

I'm getting a little pop-up saying this 1939 register is free to access "until Sunday"

[Pam Downes]

Believe it or not, the one name of my rellies which FMP made a serious boo-boo with, Ancestry have transcribed correctly. Do we have a flabbergasted smilie?

Pam

[almach]

After I informed FMP of a mistranscription It took them 6 months to correct my father's name, they had indexed him under his sister's married name.

Ancestry have my father indexed correctly.

So, I deduce that with the benefit of both Ancestry and FMP transcriptions we may find who we are looking for without too much trouble I'm ever the optimist

[Mitch in Notts]

Sadly looks like same image areas are missing off of the Ancestry site as were missing off of Find My Past. Most notably huge chunks of Willenhall in Staffordshire for me (Willenhall accounts for 55% of my missing households from the 1939 register)

[Peter Goodey]

Sadly looks like same image areas are missing off of the Ancestry site as were missing off of Find My Past.

I don't see how it could be otherwise.

What does FMP have to say about the missing areas? Are the original documents missing or do they survive but were missed in the scanning process?

[Megan Roberts]

For me the one interesting thing about the 1939 register is what it does and does not show .....

In 1939, my mother who was born in 1924, would have been living in Haverfordwest with her parents and three of her siblings. She was the fourth of five children.

Unfortunately she was the first of the five to die in 1987; and her record remains stubbornly closed to this day, whereas the record of her older sister who died in 2001, and who was married is open, as is her brother's who died in 1990. Her younger sister's record, who was married and who died in 1995 is also closed.

Now I know that I could apply to open Mum's, but I have no need to, and I am 95% certain that none of my cousin's have applied to open my aunt's; so the question is why is it, when she was born less than 100 years ago?

[Guy Etchells]

If I understand the arrangements correctly, there may be more closed records on Ancestry than FMP but there can't possibly be fewer.

That's because Ancestry don't have the mechanism to open closed records.

There may be fewer also because if someone complains to Findmypast or to the National Archives that a person is living but their record on the 1939 is open that record is redacted. Ancestry seem to be working on a dataset that is 1 to 2 years out of date which means there could be a number of open images on one company's site that is redacted on the others
Cheers
Guy

[cicilysmith]

I have found my aunt's details on Ancestry. She was living with her parents and older sister. Her sister has been redacted but has been deceased for some years whereas aunty Joan is very much alive. I have never seen the FMP version so don't know what that says. cicilysmith