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Who lived in your
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41 Million lives recorded in England & Wales at the outbreak of the Second World War.
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Records of people younger than 100 and still alive, or who died after 1991 are officially closed. You can find more details here.

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  • Statistics

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A collage of photos of an old 1939 map, household transcripts of the 1939 register as viewable on Findmypast, original scanned pages from the 1939 register and statistics regarding the British population in 1939.

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