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From: Piglet <>
Subject: Re: [MOGreene] Greene Co. death records circa 1916
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 12:50:38 -0500
In-Reply-To: <003501c34d2b$87255890$6501a8c0@Audrey>


Exactly, and sometimes (last surviving spouse, children not local) that
information may come from someone as remote as the lady who keeps the
boarding house they died in.

Even when it is one of their kids or a spouse, it's iffy; if it's a
grandchild or nephew, etc., gets iffier. I have an ancestor whose death
certificate asks, among other things, for the deceased's father's place of
birth. Answer was given by deceased's grandson---the great-grandson of the
person the question was about. He gave birthplace as Germany, and all the
rest of us have been wandering about ever since then (1928) wondering where
in the heck he got *that* idea---all other evidence is that he was North
Carolina-born, and that he's not of German ancestry at least on his father's
side (no clue who mamma was, so will reserve comment on that part).

Any document that's not filled in by someone who was *there* at the event
being recorded is potentially iffy---my grandmother's delayed birth
certificate has all her info accurately, but is wrong by several years and a
county or three on the birthdates & places of both her parents.

--pig

On 7/18/03 7:53 AM, shared this thought:

> Death Certificates are very revealing for the info provided by a surviving
> family member at time of death---but I'm realizing that even that info
> relies on just how much info that person or family knows.

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