Genealogy Chat

Thanks all, very interesting :)

Just been looking through our documents and found identity cards for myself and my sister. Mine was issued in 1941 (the year I was born) and has the information "The identity card of a child should be kept by the parent or guardian....." It has also had two pieces of paper pasted on to record changes of address.
My sister's card, issued after the end of the war (cards were required for some years afterwards) is a more sophisticated affair. It specifically states it's for a person under 16, gives her 16th birthday as the expiry date - although cards had been dispensed with long before then - and has spaces to record changes of address - for official use only, you weren't allowed to fill them in yourself.
The numbers on our cards are the register entry numbers of our birth certificates and, to confirm Gary's information, became NHS numbers.
Not sure when cards were no longer required, but as ours don't show a 1953 change of address it was presumably before then.

mine is a beige colour - No: XLAR 45.3
Mum was XLAR 45.2
Dad was XLAR 45.1

it says "Do nothing with this card until you are told" still waiting!!!

this was 1936 by the way

Hello

Guy Etchells brought a Freedom Of Information case and got the NHS to provide information held re the 1939 registration which took place in September 1939.

The details were added to during the war and became the basis for NHS numbers issued after the NHS was formed. Under the Freedom Of Information Act I e mailed them in mid January looking for confirmation of who was at 2 addresses in 1939. Yesterday I received the details.

Unfortunately the powers that be have now added a charge of £42 per search (I think this started on 01/02/10).

See http://www.ic.nhs.uk/news-and-events/news/nhs-ic-launches-the-1939-register-service

Gary

I was told that I had the cradle type gas mask. Evidently somebody had to pump it with a foot pump. I wonder what happened to it? I'd love to have it. Never heard of the identity cards though.

I was just a twinkle in my dad's eye in WW2. Why did he have one dated from May, 1946 then?

If you were around in WW2 you would have had a card issued, I had two more siblings arrive in during the War and each of them were issued with ID cards an Gas masks ,children had the mickey mouse type ones and babies had a cradle type thing that they were zipped into

Does that mean I could have one, I wonder. How old do you have to be?

I still have mine
its number is DIVG 269-4

I have my late father's National Registration Identity Card. It's pale blue with the registration number as 3 letters BUA followed by 7 numbers (the last of which is 2 and he was the second born). It has 4 National Registration Stamps on it after different addresses from May, 1946 to September, 1950. Is this the same as that to which you refer?

I was born in 1944 and still have mine. I am sure that there will be lots of others, although most will be issued at birth, after 1939.

I can remember my Identy Card No. It was QFDN 141 4

The last figure 4 indicated that I was the fourth member of the household.

Has anyone on here ever got one of these for family members?
What kind of info do you get?
Never heard of these being available but just read an interesting article here
http://www.1911census.org.uk/1939.htm