From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , Tickettyboo   
    writes:   
   >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.   
      
   Were original NHS numbers also based on the letters at the top left of   
   the register pages? Even for those born later? I was born in 1960, but   
   can remember mine - "POCH; 12" (sometimes the semicolon was included,   
   sometimes it wasn't). [I cant remember my new-format one! I never   
   understood why they had to change them!]   
      
   (I also don't understand why we had - have - to have an NHS number _and_   
   an NI one; surely a common one would have been better. The only reason I   
   can _think_ of is some "I am not a number, I am a free man" thinking,   
   which would be silly: I'd much rather be one number than several!)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   Can you open your mind without it falling out?   
      
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