> >the following is courtesy of Ken MYCOCK - > > >>If you're looking for someone in the western half of Eyam in 1939, >>those records >>have been lost before being catalogued by TNA and before >>FindMyPast's digitisation. >> >>When the 1939 Register became available last year, I started looking for my >>mother, maternal grandparents, great-uncle and and great-aunts in >>Eyam (Bakewell >>RD). Whilst we already have all their details needed for a >>specific search, no >>matter what search methods we tried, they couldn't be found. Nor >>could a number >>of other Eyam residents who we knew about from personal knowledge >>and/ or the >>1911 census and subsequent records (directories, MIs ...). >> >>Eventually we adopted a different approach and found and 'unlocked' >>one record >>which, even with the limited information given in FMP search >>results was clearly >>in Eyam - the Miners Arms. That record was in Enumeration District >>RCCZ, which >>we then checked from end to end and found that it clearly related >>only to the >>part of the village roughly from the church eastwards. >> >>Looking at TNA's Discovery catalogue, RCCZ is (RG101) piece number >>5936D, but >>the sequential piece 5936C is ED RCCX, which we confirmed doesn't relate to >>Eyam. It was notable that there was no evidence of ED RCCY in Discovery, >>although it should appear in the Bakewell RD range (RCCA to RCDJ & RCEA to >>RCEC). In the resulting email exchange with TNA they said "We believe the >>records for the relevant area do not survive", but went on to say that this >>could be for a number of reasons and that RCCY may not have been used in the >>first place (although their information about the records in the NHS Central >>Register didn't show whether RCCY was used or not). >> >>A check through my late mother's paperwork unearthed her NHS card which was >>issued on the formation of the NHS in 1948, using her National Registration >>number as her first NHS number. This showed the ED part of her registration >>number was indeed RCCY. Hence, the western part of Eyam was in >>district RCCY, >>which is completely missing from the records at TNA and, as a >>result, from the >>digitised 1939 Register on FMP. >> >>As the NHS Central Register was a paper archive, it was clearly prone to >>mis-filing. This NHS article, archived by TNA in 2009, may offer one >>explanation as to why RCCY and, possibly, others are missing from >>the surviving >>register: >><http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20091115144135/http://www.connectingforhealth.nhs.uk/newsroom/media/nhs-central-register> >> >>Ken Mycock >> >>Note: I am also sending this to the Guild of One-Name Studies and Society of >>Genalogists Rootsweb lists. Fell free to repost elsewhere. >> >> >> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>DERBYSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>the quotes in the subject and the body of the message