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Re: finding 400,000 older persons



"Evidence" is always required to create a delayed birth record. Obviously a
clerk knows that the person standing before him or her was born, but the
"evidence" was needed for the clerk to create the record and then be able to
"attest to" the validity of the date of birth to the best of his or her
knowledge.

The evidence was often filed along with the delayed birth record. This
usually included Baptismal records, sworn statements from midwives or
doctors, sworn statements from family members, newspaper articles, or school
records.  These were -- and still are -- the most common types of evidence
used.

Sometimes there is unusual evidence.  When I was processing some old birth
records in Manchester, NH, I came across someone who had turned in a copy of
his "Sons of the American Revolution" genealogy.  Early in the 20th century,
the baptismal records were originals (no photocopiers, of course), and some
of these were wonderful pieces of "art" -- full color, embossed, gold
lettering, the works.

Paul R. Bergeron
City Clerk
229 Main Street
Nashua, NH 03060
Telephone: 603/589-3010
Fax: 603/589-3029
http://www.gonashua.com/



-----Original Message-----
From: Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer [mailto:c_crawfo@CULINARY.EDU]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:19 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: finding 400,000 older persons


>>> John Howard Fowler <johnhowardfowler@JUNO.COM> 05/16/02 09:07PM >>>
Anyone filing for social security in 1942 would have to have been born in
1887 or before.  When my father, born in 1911, tried to get his for a
passport in 1967, he was required to get evidence of at least one person who
knew him from birth or early infancy.  Did 400,000 seniors find persons
elder than they to attest to their Arkansas birth in 1942/43?

Apparently the requirement was only that the person had to be older. When my
grandmother filed for a delayed birth certificate in Illinois, her sister,
two years older, was the person who swore to her birth date.



Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
Information Services Librarian

The Culinary Institute of America
1946 Campus Drive
Hyde Park, NY  12538
(845) 451-1322
c_crawfo@culinary.edu

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