From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message ,   
   brightside@sonnenkinder.org writes:   
   >This hs been made available on Ancestry from 7/5/2018.   
      
   Yes, with surprisingly little fanfare, I thought!   
   >   
   >The 1939 England and Wales Register, taken on 29th September, provides   
   >details of an estimated 40 million people residing in the country at   
   >the time.   
   >   
   It's a census in all but name. Differences from a census: it doesn't   
   show relationships; it shows DOB (to the day, which is very useful!)   
   rather than age; it shows sometimes extra detail of auxiliary occupation   
   such as ARP warden; since it was the basis of NHS records until well   
   into the 20th century, it often shows the surname crossed out and   
   replaced for a married woman (though with the original still legible),   
   though with a date written in that isn't necessarily the date of the   
   change; and details of people who were born less than 100 years before   
   the date you look at it blanked out (e. g. dated after 1918-6-10).   
      
   They remove the blanking if someone convinces them that the person is no   
   longer alive; when it was only FindMyPast that offered this record, that   
   was by for example emailing FMP a copy of the death certificate; I'm not   
   sure now.   
      
   The blanking doesn't always obscure all the details, such as where they   
   stick above or below the lines (especially if the page image is curved);   
   conversely, it always covers the address part of the line (left two   
   columns or so), which is awkward if the following line contains only   
   ditto marks. (The transcript - of the unblanked lines - will show the   
   address, but transcripts aren't always correct.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Look out for #1. Don't step in #2 either.   
      
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