On Mon, 2 Nov 2015 21:02:49 +0000, Brian Pears via <genbrit@rootsweb.com> wrote: >On 02/11/2015 17:46, Tickettyboo via wrote: >> see above, if a govt dept was referring to this document for whatever >> reason it may have been annotated at a much later date. Have you viewed >> the image? if her married name is in different writing or doesn't look >> like part of the original form completion then I'd guess that its been >> amended/annotated much later > >Somewhere (I can't now find it) on the FindMyPast site it >states that names were updated until 1991. > That was about 4 years before the current 10-digit numbers were introduced so possibly when the transfer process started which would have made updating of old-style records already converted to the new system an increasing waste of effort. >What I find strange is that records I previously accessed >from the NHS Centre for my parents (who were both born in >1919) are still redacted on the FindMyPast data. The NHS >staff obviously knew that they were both deceased, so I >assumed that there must have been some indication of that >added to the register - but apparently that's not the case. >It seems strange that they would amend names in the register >right up to 1991, yet not add some annotation indicating >such a basic event as death.