tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post4695761286352525106..comments2023-10-28T14:06:38.160+01:00Comments on Hertfordshire Genealogy News: The 1939 National Register is coming ...Chris Reynoldshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03180178794366214284noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-44402355632969694762015-11-02T15:06:04.898+00:002015-11-02T15:06:04.898+00:00Had a chance to look at the 1939 Register. I have ...Had a chance to look at the 1939 Register. I have been able to reconstruct the households of the entire village of Preston, Herts for free! You need to juggle the information - ie input the piece and item numbers - and people born after 1915 are not shown (unless they died). It is useful having the electoral registers for 1930 and 1951 which more or less fix the abodes of households<br /><br />I think it is salty to charge more than £50 for information on 15 households. It would be cheaper to drive to The National Archives and research there for free - assuming that this is the case.<br /><br />One aspect that is useful is that as the records were used by the government between 1939 and 1946, if a woman married between these dates, then her maiden and married surnames are shown in the Register. This was true of my mother who married in 1945 and is shown as WRAY/MILLS. This helps to pin down folk.<br /><br />What have I found? TNA have a card that shows my mother as joining the Women's Land Army in 1941. The 1939 Register has her on a farm at Preston in 1939! It is the farm where my father worked. This was a revelation - I had been told by at least two people that she was on another farm in the village. So that is how they met. WW2 had a silver lining - at least as far as I was concerned!Older other sheephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968592967099047721noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7992381256386825587.post-74629281634223693392015-10-30T11:44:40.288+00:002015-10-30T11:44:40.288+00:00Looking forward to seeing the 1939 Register - thou...Looking forward to seeing the 1939 Register - though if I am reading the info correctly, your details will not appear......unless you are more than 100 years old. :-)Older other sheephttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15968592967099047721noreply@blogger.com