Charlotte: Go with the information on the birth certificate. It was provided by the mother or father, so they knew first-hand. The marriage certificate may have been filled in by the bride, or perhaps the groom's family had moved when he was tiny and he didn't know he was born elsewhere. Eileen > I have his death certificate, and on it is says that he was born in > Hopkinsville, Ky. , and that his parents were both born in Georgia. But on > my grandmother's (his daughter) death certificate, it says that he was born > in Georgia.