1939 Register

Guest blog: A Titanic survivor on the 1939 Register

Posted on 4 July, 2016 by Helen Barrell

A guest blog for Findmypast. My great-grandma’s cousin survived the Titanic – did he find peace afterwards, or was his life full of drama?

Documents/Elsewhere (not Essex or Suffolk)/Essex

Guest blog: Multiple wives and a missing daughter: Scandalous family secrets in the 1939 Register

Posted on 16 March, 2016 by Helen Barrell

A guest blog for Findmypast. What happened to my grandma’s uncle, Ernest Baden Powell Field? And why did his marriages not quite match up with what I foun...

Essex

Part 2: knock down brick walls with the 1939 Register

Posted on 22 December, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Part two of my 1939 Register guest blog for Find My Past: An intrepid cocoa-buyer, and Uncle Bill’s fate.

Sources

Knock down family tree brick walls with the 1939 Register

Posted on 8 December, 2015 by Helen Barrell

Check out Find My Past for my guest blog about family tree brick walls I demolished with The 1939 Register. Without it, I would’ve struggled to trace Uncl...