From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Charles Ellson   
    writes:   
   >On Tue, 12 Jun 2018 18:39:53 +0100, Ruth Wilson   
   > wrote:   
   []   
   >>The mystery is that I found my aunt in a maternity hospital and so out   
   >>of curiousity checked the birth indexes to find a cousin I have never   
   >>heard of, and can't find an infant (or other) death for! Fortunately, I   
   >>have much older siblings to pump for information.   
   >>   
   >>By the way, does anyone know if the register will be revised in future -   
   >>i.e. open up more entries as they pass 100 years old?   
   >>   
   >Unlike a census, I would expect only residents to be shown in the 1939   
   >records so in a maternity hospital that ought to be live-in workers   
   >and their families but not patients.   
      
   Ruth has already said she's found her aunt! Oh, I see - you're   
   suggesting she might have been live-in staff.   
      
   But are you sure anyway? I thought at least one of the purposes of the   
   register - or at least, one of the purposes to which it was put - was   
   the issue of identity cards (and possibly ration cards); for it to have   
   been usable for that purpose, surely it would have been necessary to   
   gather details of as many people as possible?   
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   value. - Brian Cox, RT 2015/3/14-20   
      
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