I just received the record for the birth of Floy Bunker Heideman. All her life she celebrated her birthday on Feb 20th. Every record regarding her that required a birthdate gives Feb 20, 1895. The official records gives 3 mo. 20 day 1895. It was filed 6-23-1896, over a year after she was born. Even then it gives "female" born to Lou Linebeck and Will Bunker. There is no doubt that this is the correct record. Willis Bunker and Sarah Louise (always called Lou) Linebeck had only one daughter. Floy's record in the BFA database will still retain the Feb 20th birthdate but a note has been made that the certified record from Iowa lists her birthdate as Mar 20, 1895. This is an example though of an "official" record being inaccurate. All genealogists know that this happens frequently. The sex gets reversed, dates get changed around, names are mis-spelled or a nickname is used. Just about anything can happen and it will. When you run into a situation like this you should not change your record but merely note that the record is different. Frequently, we get people who tell us our records are wrong and we have an incorrect date or name. When that happens, we add the new information to our database. Sometimes if there is no source for the alleged incorrect information we may delete it and use the new information. But just as often we leave all the information in the database. Sometimes this may be confusing and some people who are sticklers for absolute accuracy get upset. However, how are we to know what is absolutely accurate when we were not there? Floy was the oldest Bunker to ever live that we can verify both the birth date and the death date. Even if she was born in March instead of Feb. she still holds that record. Benjamin Bunker, son of James Bunker and Anne Thomas was said to be 108-110 when he died. However, we cannot verify with any record his birthdate, his date of marriage or the dates of the births of his oldest children. His date of birth is estimated and so we cannot be certain that he lived to be 108-110 years old. Since he died in 1818, it is not likely we will ever verify this. I read an obituary for a lady which said she was 112 years old when she died. The church record of her birth disputes this and she was really 20 years younger. Often when people live to great ages, others think they are much older than they really are. Until about 1900 we do not have very good records of births, deaths and marriages. A lot of the earlier dates are only estimations. Bette