With reference to Adrian Bruce's post, I found a person I had searched long and weary for on FMP's version of the 1939 Register. When I searched again when Ancestry acquired it, this person came up

Paddy Not so – Any contract to put items from the National Archives is via the National Archives itself Ancestry get their images once a year from TNA Regards John Hanson - researching the

... Minor point of pedantry but one which might make it more understandable. I don't believe that there **is** a database at TNA containing the 1939. There might be a stack of DVDs, tapes,

Adrian, et al, Thanks for your further comments; I've learned something in the process. In particular, I hadn't foreseen more than one countries' archives having the same references - my ancestors

I have subscriptions to both FindMyPast and Ancestry, and can endorse Lorna's remark that FMP were the first to transcribe the 1939 Register. I believe that Ancestry arranged with FMP to use the same

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 12:47, Lorna Craig via groups.io <l.m.craig@...> wrote: ... > ... I think FMP have the transcription rights and Ancestry get their information from them.

A Google search for TNA/R39 throws up an extract from a National Archives blog of 4 September 2015 called “The 1939 Register – when is a ‘census’ not a census?” The extract is: “The

On Thu, 14 Jan 2021 at 12:10, John James <gladtobegrey@...> wrote: ... > "tna_rg101..." would be better, because that would be correct. "tna_R39..." is just plain wrong. ... Speaking with my

Geoffrey, no, I wasn't, I was looking at the file name given when downloading the image to my computer. You're correct that the 'left arrow' menu gives "Reference: RG 101/6706H" , but I would still

Although the image name (on both Ancestry and FindmyPast) starts with tna_R39, they both give the RG 101 reference below their transcription.

Thanks all, It wasn't the "tna_" part, but rather the ..."R39_..." I was querying. I've not come across such a significantly incorrect reference on Ancestry before - perhaps I've just been very

I presume you are taking the reference from the URL strip at the top of the Ancestry screen. At the right side of the screen are several symbols including an arrow pointing left.

Ancestry list the register at the start as tna-r39.... more sense thn RG101

Ancestry, and FindMyPast have licenses to index quite a lot of the information which is actually stored at The National Archives, and hence the tna part is part of their own citation. They have the

FindMyPast gives an RG101 reference: e.g. RG101 6303C-020-18 RJIF, which is piece, page and line number. I tend to use FMP instead of Ancestry for searching the 1939 register because of this. A

I think you're being a little unfair - most providers have their own internal file reference structure for the data they provide and the TNA referencing system may not play nicely with that. The

You’re missing the fact that Ancestry (and most of the other information providers) aren’t very good at referencing documents correctly.

Forgive me if this is the wrong place to ask, but ... ... why are images from the 1939 Register downloaded from Ancestry given a filename prefix of "tna_R39_..." when the Register is in the series "RG

If you mean some sort of automatic synchronisation then the answer is NO. But there are tools that help lookup BMD and Census records in FamilySearch for selected people in FH. Mike Tate