Thanks to the Lost Cousins monthly newsletter I found today that the Home Guard Records for County Durham are searchable on line at the National Archives: http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/durham-home-guard-records-1939-1945/ Currently these are apparently the only county to be covered. You can see the name and date of birth on the index; to see the actual record by download costs £3.45 each. I found 8 possible ONS entries and downloaded two of particular interest, because they were people I hadn't found in the 1939 Register. As a result I now have found another two Households in the 1939 Register which had been either mistranscribed, or in one case it seems a complete page escaped being transcribed. The download gives you: Name, Date of Birth, Birthplace (but not always because the pro-forma changed), are you a British subject?, Nationality of Parents at birth, Name and address of next of kin, boxes to tick on understanding what you are committed to, service and discharge dates and there is a space for things like special merit. I would think it is only worth the download if you are particularly interested in next of kin, which is what gave me the clues to find entries in 1939. Adrian
My husband's maternal grandfather is listed, sadly though a closed record until 2021, unless I apply under a FOI request. In the case this chap, a search of 1939 Register has not been successful as yet. Regards, Julie Goucher Sent from my iPad > On 27 Mar 2016, at 15:01, Adrian Abbott via <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks to the Lost Cousins monthly newsletter I found today that the > Home Guard Records for County Durham are searchable on line at the > National Archives: > > http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/help-with-your-research/research-guides/durham-home-guard-records-1939-1945/ > > Currently these are apparently the only county to be covered. You can > see the name and date of birth on the index; to see the actual record > by download costs £3.45 each. I found 8 possible ONS entries and > downloaded two of particular interest, because they were people I > hadn't found in the 1939 Register. As a result I now have found > another two Households in the 1939 Register which had been either > mistranscribed, or in one case it seems a complete page escaped being > transcribed. > > The download gives you: Name, Date of Birth, Birthplace (but not > always because the pro-forma changed), are you a British subject?, > Nationality of Parents at birth, Name and address of next of kin, > boxes to tick on understanding what you are committed to, service and > discharge dates and there is a space for things like special merit. I > would think it is only worth the download if you are particularly > interested in next of kin, which is what gave me the clues to find > entries in 1939. > > Adrian > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message