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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [Lon] Re: Time of birth stated on birth certificates
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 21:34:24 +0000
In-Reply-To: <004501c2d967$2a9baee0$806637d2@w1v5k5>


In message <004501c2d967$2a9baee0$>, Aubrey Foster
<> writes
>I have a situation where the father is shown as deceased on the daughters
>birth cert but his name and occupation are given on the daughters marriage
>cert 20 years later. I wondered why they would put his occupation if he had
>been dead for 20 years!!!
well. it was his occupation while he was alive. Being dead doesm't stop
Nelson being an admiral, or Capt Cook a navigator. Any more than it
stops your father's name being Tom (or Dick or Harry)

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Eve McLaughlin

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

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