This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: BURNS, LEWIS Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GCC.2ACE/3856.1.1.1.2.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My records show that the Bradford Burns who was b. Nov 30, 1890, is the s/o James C. and Alice Lewis Burns. I base my information on Delayed Birth Certificate #53465, Lincoln County, WV. I don't know when Bradford died, but I expect he may have lived long enough to apply for social security and needed to prove his birth date since all the original Lincoln Co. records were burned. With the help of family and friends, many people fudged their birth dates to make themselves seem older in order to qualify for benefits sooner so Bradford may have been born later than 1890. Also, by the time delayed birth certificates were issued, many relatives couldn't remember the exact year a baby was born.