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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Evidence on birth certificate
Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2002 21:03:41 +0000
In-Reply-To: <008201c28252$fc65e2e0$4a0d7ad5@Mojflo>


In message <008201c28252$fc65e2e0$>, Maureen Avery
<> writes
>I know I've asked this question before but was there anything apart from
>conscience to prevent someone saying they were married to the child's father on
>a child's birth certificate?

Not really, unless the registrar just happened to know the family. (Or,
of course, the named father/ his wife happened to get wind of it and
objected. If you were cheeky you could get away with more or less
anything.

--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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