Ellie Burnaford was kind enough to share this link to the 1939 register. For any of you digging for your roots in the U.K., this could be a very valuable resource. It will be become public and searchable on Monday 2 November on FindMyPast.
This register is a comprehensive survey of the civil population of England and Wales. The lives of 41 million people, captured in one day in September 1939. It provides and interesting snapshot of a nation on the eve of war.
The survey contains the names addresses and occupations of everyone in England and Wales at the time and was used as the basis for rationing, identity cards and, in post-war Britain, the NHS. Want to know where your family was and what they were doing when the register was taken?
To read the original announcement on FindMyPast, click here.
Hope you will check it out!
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