Genealogy Chat

Hi, I'm new to using message boards etc, but are voters registers or electoral registers from say 1919 of any use when tryng to find ancestors? any guidance would be much appreciated. cheers Sandra

If you have an address they can be invaluable. I have found children I didn't know existed... pinpointed deaths and marriages all from electoral rolls. Jean x.

thanks very much Jean. Will I have to visit the town/city of the address that I have to find these registers or are they on-line somewhere? thanks Sandra

They aren't online. Held at records offices/archives/local history centres and the British Library at St Pancras has an extensive collection - though some are kept offsite so best to check in advance. Some are frail and need to be brought up from the storerooms; some are neatly bound on open shelves and others are on microfilm. As with everything else though, mistakes can occur. You need to have an address to find people and if you are looking between censuses, the parliamentary ward listed on the top of the census page will be a help in locating the street. nell

Er - I wasnt aware that CHILDREN have ever been shown on Electoral Rolls? And very few women had the vote in 1919. OC

thanks all. I'm heading in the right direction now. regards Sandra

Aunty Marj, message via favourite board nephew..............8.5 million woman were able to vote by 1919. erm, not that 'I' would want to correct the most revered Olde Crone. :-))

Rebs dear.....was it really 8.9 million? I always thought women did not get universal suffrage until 1929! Anyway (pout pout, stamp) 8.9 million isnt a lot....didnt they have to be over 30, and a householder? OC

cut'n pasted from the nephew......lol !!! message to old crone......yes auntie-5 million were still disenfranchised and women had to wait till 1929 to vote at 21,but 8.5 million should have been grateful (!!!!) in 1919-women householders and wifes of householders at 30 were eligible.

See? I was right, smirk smirk. Well, nearly. OC

I don't care who's right, just don't shoot the messenger.....please. pmsl !!! Hey Aunty Marj, are you anywhere near Penryn?

Yes, Rebs dear, I am reasonably near Penryn....God's forgotten acre..... OC

Cool, I'll have to drop in for tea and cake one day. Thirsty work looking for dead people. lolol !!!

Thnak god for that, I thought you were going to ask me to go and dig up some dead rellies for you in the Penryn Churchyard. OC