Handwritten notes on 1939 registry

[svsaunders78]

Hey,

I have just been looking at the 1939 register for details of my family and have found the right people with the right names on however there are hand crossed corrections on the document to show the married surnames of two people. The thing thats strange is the 1939 register was taken in Sept 1939 yet the people who has been crossed out got married on 1941.

Am I being thick here or am I missing something simple or standard?

Thanks

Scott

 

[pjmburns]

The register was continually updated. It was used for the NHS set up. People blanked out are supposed to be "unblanked" after they die but I am not sure how accurate that info is.
It was supposed to be maintained until 1991.

 

[svsaunders78]

The register was continually updated. It was used for the NHS set up. People blanked out are supposed to be "unblanked" after they die but I am not sure how accurate that info is.
It was supposed to be maintained until 1991.

you know your stuff..... I am so grateful.. Thank you

 

[Astoness]

The register was continually updated. It was used for the NHS set up. People blanked out are supposed to be "unblanked" after they die but I am not sure how accurate that info is.
It was supposed to be maintained until 1991.

not very accurate jan...i have a least 6 rellies who died many years ago one in 1941 yet their names still remain blanked out...this is not very useful at all to us researchers

lyn

 

[pjmburns]

I know Lyn. There are a number of errors. My Dad should have been blanked out but is visible.

 

[devonjim]

I find that road names at the top of some pages are blanked out, so difficult to know what address you are looking at. Why are so many residents blanked out? Is it suppose to be people still alive in 1991? Both my parents visible and they died in mid 1990's.

The register was continually updated. It was used for the NHS set up. People blanked out are supposed to be "unblanked" after they die but I am not sure how accurate that info is.
It was supposed to be maintained until 1991.

 

[pjmburns]

I agree about the road names but find tracking back or forward a page sorts that out.
As for names - when it was originally published (2015) names of people still alive were supposed to be blanked out (with some errors). So your parents names would have been visible. In the case of my parents Mom should have been visible but isn't (as she died in 2015 that did not surprise me) and Dad should not have been visible but was.

 

[MWS]

I thought that when it was released, everyone who would have been less than a 100 years old would have been blanked out, including those who were already dead. Then as each year passed those that became over 100 years old would have been unblanked.

And to unblank someone who was less than a 100 years old and dead you had to supply proof, I didn't think they undertook this themselves. Which accounts for differences between the register on Ancestry and findmypast as people prove to one or the other.

Could be wrong though and it doesn't account for unblanked people who shouldn't be.