[PW] Japanese-American Family Identification Numbers

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Because there were between 110,000 and 120,000 Japanese 
and Japanese-American people removed from their homes and 
detained, it is doubtful that there would be lists available other 
than at   the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration. 
Suggest you contact them. http://www.archives.gov/ 

Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan9 at gmail.com> wrote: Hi All--
In about April of 1942, during the internment process, Issei and
Nissei families were given "Family Identification Numbers"; perhaps
the most famous of these numbers is 13660, from Miné Okubo's book,
_Citizen 13660_, detailing her imprisonment in Tanforan and Topaz.

Is there a registry of these ID numbers?  I'm considering setting a
story in Topaz, and I wondered what the maximum number was; I also
wondered how the individuals within each family were referred to,
since the government was obviously much more comfortable referring to
citizens it had imprisoned by number rather than name.

Metta,
Ivan

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