From: tickettyboo@mail2oops.com   
      
   On 2018-06-12 23:56:12 +0000, Charles Ellson said:   
   > IMU ID card numbers were based on home addresses so people temporarily   
   > away (distinct from e.g. evacuated as seems to have been the case with   
   > my father, his first wife and umpteen school pupils) would go on the   
   > list for where they normally lived. Changing your address did not   
   > normally change your ID number; the 1939 address was the anchor point   
   > as with my mother whose card had 3 addresses in two different   
   > countries.   
      
   My pa in law (and thousands of other children) had already been   
   evacuated when the register was complied. He was not included at his   
   home address with his parents, but was recorded (and his ration card   
   issued) at his evacuation address. From what he told me, when he   
   returned home, within about 6 months, his Mum had to have his card   
   amended with his now new address. Ditto for my mother who had also been   
   evacuated, that makes it difficult to try to find a lot of children in   
   the register - I don't know if they have changed the system but   
   certainly when it was first released you had to specify which record   
   you wanted released with the death cert as proof. Unless you happened   
   to know exactly where they were evacuated to or were living for any   
   other reason when registration was done that was almost impossible.   
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