On 28/10/2015 15:03, Tim Powys-Lybbe via wrote: > On 27/10/2015 4:02 p.m., Anne Sherman wrote: >> Find My Past have just announced that the 1939 register will be available on from Monday 2nd November 2015. >> >> Records will be available to purchase for £6.95 per household, or £24.95 for a 5 household bundle (£4.99 per household). It seems a bit pricey but they did put a lot of work into it. >> >> Findmypast subscribers will be entitled to a discount. > I was wondering about that discount but did not see anything on the > announcement I received from FMP. > > FindMypast also got the 1911 census contract and set up a company to > market and charge for this. The charges were on a piece basis with > various discounts for quantity. > > I think that 1911-only site is only now being wound up. But very soon > FMP added 1911 census access to their normal subscriptions, as have > other genealogy data providers. > > What I wonder is how long it will be before FMP add the 1939 exercise to > their normal FMP data subscription. As a potential customer of that > data, I am happy not to buy access in a piecemeal fashion and await the > merge into the full subscription. > > Who knows any more? > I believe the contract is until 31/3/2024 with potential to extend for 4 further periods of 5 years each but the is no detail about exclusivity on the on line tender docs. I am not sure but think the 1911 carried a 5 year exclusivity period (from the time it went on line) and would assume a similar period for this. If that is the case I would suggest that it would be around the 3 year mark before it became part of the subscription site and a further 2 years or so before other on line companies could gain access to it. Cheers Guy