From: myths@ic24.net   
      
   On Sat, 9 May 2020 15:47:35 +0200, Athel Cornish-Bowden   
    wrote:   
      
   [...]   
   >Ha. A few months ago I needed a copy of the registration of my father's   
   >birth in 1908 in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Apparently at that time they   
   >weren't producing birth certificates (at least they didn't offer me   
   >one), but they sent a PDF file of the relevant page of the register.   
   >His second name was Karslake, admittedly not the most common of names,   
   >but was written in such a weird way that it could only be read if one   
   >knew what it was. It had several other errors, including saying that my   
   >grandfather was a steelworker, which he wasn't, unless I've been lied   
   >to all these years. It was probably recorded by a barely literate   
   >person who couldn't understand my grandmother's way of speaking (she   
   >had come from England only a few months earlier). It all underlines the   
   >fact that one cannot have 100% confidence in what official documents   
   >say.   
      
   We knew my great-aunt's birthday, and it was on her passport.  It's   
   also inscribed in a book given to her by her slightly older sister for   
   her 10th birthday.   
      
   After her death, her son found her birth certificate.  It gave date of   
   birth as one day earlier than the date in her passport etc.   
      
   Her birth was at 03:40 and registered 14/13 days after the birth by   
   her father.  I suspect there was a confusion about night of the birth,   
   along the lines of "two weeks ago, the Tuesday night.  Twenty to four   
   in the morning" and somehow the day was taken as that of the Tuesday,   
   rather than Wednesday."  Sadly, no record was found of what was needed   
   (affidavit from a parent?) to get the correct date on her first   
   passport.   
      
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