Apparently the Information Commissioner has ruled that the 1939 National Registration information must be made publicly available where it relates to deceased persons. The records have hitherto been held at Smedley Hydro (also home of GRO) and were used for the issue of WWII identity cards, Ration Books etc, and then after the war they were used for compilation of the first NHS register and medical card issue. The records will become increasingly important as they help to fill the gap between the 1921 census and the 1951 census. (The 1931 census has not survived and there was no census in 1941.) I daresay there will be more about this in due course but at the moment, to the best of my knowledge there is nothing official published. Ann List Admin

I found the following an informative site when i first discovered the 1831/1841 lack and that the General Register may be a useful infill. http://www.statewatch.org/news/2003/jul/26ukid.htm It explains what info it contains and a lot of comments regarding it giving it some interesting background and http://homepages.newnet.co.uk/dance/webpjd/offstats/regevents.htm A useful timeline hope this helps folks le durachd Fionnghal > Apparently the Information > Commissioner has ruled that the 1939 National > Registration information must be made publicly available > where it relates to deceased persons. > > were used for the issue of WWII identity cards, Ration > Books etc, and then after the war they > were used for compilation of the first NHS register and > medical card issue. > > The records will become increasingly important as they help > to  fill the gap > between the 1921 census and the 1951 census. (The 1931 > census has not survived and there was no census in 1941.)