The 1939 Register for Family Historians

Fiona Brooker
Jun 29, 2020
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About this webinar

Following on from the declaration of War, on September 29th 1939, the details of the population of Great Britain and Northern Ireland were recorded and identity cards were issued. Findmypast has now published the registers for England and Wales. This talk will look at searching the 1939 Register and what to do with the information you find.

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About the speaker

Fiona Brooker is a professional genealogist (Memories In Time) who has been actively researching her family history for over 35 years, inspired by two marriage certificates and a collection of family ...
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  1. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    5 years ago

    Very informative and great delivery. Thanks. \n\nVery informative and well presented. Good to have a session at Australian friendly time.\n\nVery informative!\n\nVery informative, excellent presentation.\n\nVery informative. I love learning about how to search in the UK more! Good job!\n\nVery interesting and helpful.\n\nVery interesting and informative. Thank you.\n\nVery interesting go-through the 1939 Register by Fiona Brooker. Very clear and with several examples to show how to search in various ways to find one's cousins and family members. Could have gone a bit slower, with perhaps a few more examples. Otherwise, another excellent webinar.\n\nVery interesting records. Very well explained and shown w examples. Good thing to know about.\n\nVery interesting. Enjoyed her accent so much and the proper pronunciation of words. Extremely informative and learned the difference in a register and census.\n\nVery thorough presentation with all the little details we needed!!!\n\nVery thorough presentation.\n\nVery thorough walk-through of the new resource. Excellent job Fiona, thanks!\n\nVery well done and good example of researching this 1939 Register and what to do if incorrect or if some entry had been blacked out.\n\nVery well organized, highlighting different strategies for searching. Nice job\n\nVery well presented, clear and concise and ordered in a logical way. And Fiona's accent wasn't at all difficult to understand. Learned lots. I'd recommend other talks by Fiona based on this.\n\nVery well researched and presented. Fiona has a clear voice and her slides were very easy to understand as she used them to illustrate her presentation. \n\nWas a great introduction to the 1939 register.\n\nWasn't sure what i was signing up for with this class -so glad I took a chance!!! Extremely interesting & I learned a great deal. Thank you so much for these free webinars!!!\n\nWell presented...logical and clearly...demonstrated a good knowledge of the subject...thank you \n\nWhat a great webinar - very informative! Please keep doing the free webinars.\n\nWhile not something I could hook into at the moment, it was brilliant information. So great to have the opportunity to be exposed to it.\n\nWonderful information- thank you!\n\nWonderful presentation... informative and the presenter was easily understood! Thank you :)

  2. LT
    Legacy Family Tree
    5 years ago

    Brilliant webinar with lots of great information on how to use the 1939 Register for Genealogical Research.\n\nClear, good examples. I had used it prior, but interesting to hear of some of the quirks, discrepancies and issues with the Register. A most useful FH Resource.\n\nComplete coverage of the 1939 Register! Many thanks to Fiona Brooker for covering so much material in her webinar. Thank you.\n\nCrystal clear transmission and packed with excellent information from a superb presenter. Well worth while attending.\n\nDon't know if the registry would apply for me but I'm not sure for some of my relatives and wanted to see what it was and how it worked. I enjoyed Fiona's presentation and feel I could do it if the need comes up.\n\nDouble 5!!\n\nExcellent\n\nexcellent\n\nExcellent content and delivery - thanks Fiona!\n\nExcellent coverage of a very interesting resource. Fiona is a very clear communicator and chose examples that showcased what you can do with the Register very thoroughly. I hope we get to hear more from her in future.\n\nExcellent info and visuals\n\nExcellent information - clearly delivered by the presenter - excellent illustrations on the screen - very informative.\n\nExcellent presentation, very clear.\n\nExcellent presenter, great examples\n\nExcellent scope and depth plus helpful handout\n\nExcellent Speaker. The 1939 register is my favourite source for UK research\n\nExcellent talk on 1939 Register. I learned several new things!\n\nExcellent technically -no broadcasting glitches that I noticed.\n\nExtremely clear presentation! And, given I am in the south of the US, I loved the accent!! Thank you! \n\nFantastic!\n\nFiona is a superb teacher - she keeps things simple but is thorough. She is always well-prepared and stays on topic. Her handouts and graphics are always informative and immensely useful. Thanks Fiona.\n\nFiona is a very good presenter\n\nFiona is such a good speaker that we all enjoy her material which cane be very detained but she covers a lot of ground effortlessly. \n\nFiona was fascinating and very informative. I am going to use the 1939 Register for my research! Excellent job!!!!\n\nFollowing the step by step example made it all so easy to understand, and good examples of how to do it right the first time.\n\nFull of excellent information and extremely well presented in a way that was easy to understand.\n\nGreat coverage of research strategies for this register\n\nGreat informative webinar. Loved it :)\n\nGreat presentation\n\nGreat presentation. Easy to follow.\n\ngreat slides easy to follow. All new information to me. It is not in a time frame that I am searching but still made me think of solutions I could use for the 1841 census, Scotland Library Maps and address searching techniques\n\nGreat speaker! Enjoyed this presentation and learned a great deal.\n\nGreat to see different ways to search the register and how to report deaths in order to open redacted people. Thanks\n\nGreat webinar! Thanks!\n\nGreat! Big help finding a new tool to research!\n\nGreat.\n\nI have used it but appreciated extra background information.\n\nI learnt lots. Thanks.\n\nIt took me down memory lane. Thanks.\n\nLook forward to an opportunity to use these records. She's an excellent presenter!\n\nloved the presentation. Well spoken with no ummms and ahhhhhs as so many presenters are guilty of. Knew her topic well. I came to the webinar with two questions typed out and both were answered during the presentation. Glad to know how I can open up my mother's and uncle's blacked out line. \n\nMost informative\n\nNew source which is good to know about!\n\nNot relevant to my family. \n\nOutstanding! Great for all levels of experience.\n\nReally enjoyed it as the majority of my ancestors are british\n\nReally excellent webinar. Thank you so much\n\nShort, sweet and full of great info. Thanks Fiona, Geoff and the Legacy team!\n\nso clear with her examples\n\nspeaker was very comfortable with her topic - she limited the content to allow time to give clear examples, very clearly. A very enjoyable - and informative - webinar. Can we have her again, please\n\nSuccinct and clear explanation with supporting material.\n\nSuccinct and informative!!!\n\nThank you for the informative presentation. \n\nThe information provided will be of great help to me as I research my family - thank you so much! \n\nThis was such an informative webinar. I have found the 1939 Register an invaluable tool in my search for my birth parents (were from England). Thank you.\n\nVery clear and concise presentation so I'm looking forward to discovering more of my family on the 1939 Registry.\n\nvery clear, understandable and interesting\n\nVery descriptive and easy to follow. Thank you.\n\nVery good and informative. It was the first time I have used the webinar and was wondering if you could view it afterwards where you can fast forward or rewind some parts.\n\nVery Helpful Thank you\n\nvery informative

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