Hi, all. Ginger is quite right in saying that a body indicates a birth, somewhere, sometime. The question is where and when, and a death certificate isn't evidence of those two questions. Using the same logic, a birth certificate tells us the answers to those questions, but it is not primary evidence of when and where either parent was born, as Ginger found out. Tom -----Original Message----- From: WeeBoniLas@aol.com <WeeBoniLas@aol.com> To: DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com <DAVENPORT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 11:31 PM Subject: Re: [DAVENPORT-L] RE: Evidence >In a message dated 6/10/99 10:48:46 PM US Mountain Standard Time, >tomwduda@home.com writes: > ><< only indirect proof that the person was born >> > >Tom, > >Hmmmmmm not to get nitpicky here.... but if you have a cooling body... you >can be pretty sure they were born..... might not know where... but its a >pretty good guess they existed <g> > >But even other primary sources can be incorrect. My father's birth >certificate was filled out by his grandmother (it's my understanding) and she >states that my grandmother was born in Alabama, but the lady in question has >always said she was born in Georgia. She has no birth certificate on record >in Georgia and so I have yet to prove that, but I'll be working on that this >weekend. Unfortunately, she was born in 1922, so census work is out of the >question, but both parents died apparently within a couple of months of each >other leaving her and her sister parentless, so I'll be looking through >newspaper films this Saturday to try to find information. (Interestingly >enough, my father's initial SS card was issued in his stepfather's last name, >and was changed when he was about 17). > >Another question is my grandfather's SSN application -- it lists his birthday >a year earlier than my grandmother, great aunt and great grandmother's >bible... of course, everyone says he was born in Tennessee and yet his >application says he was born in Alabama... so it never hurts to get verifying >information. > >Just my .02 worth, > >Ginger > >______________________________