Thanks Cheri. I think recording the birthday on the certificate is probably the best idea. Not everyone knows that's not their real birthday and, in the future if someone is looking, they may be using their recorded birthday as reference.
On Tue, 12 Mar 2019 at 12:39, Cheri Mello <gfsche...@gmail.com> wrote: > Good question. I'm guessing it could go either way. You could record the > actual birthday and in your note/memo field, explain the discrepancy. Or > you could record what is on the paper and put the real birthday in your > memo/note field. If someone is going to duplicate your work, they would go > looking for the date on the paper. > > In my discrepancy case, I've recorded the date on the certificate in my > program with notes written in my memo field. I bet half the people would do > it the other way. Go with whatever you feel. > Cheri > Cheri Mello > Listowner, Azores-Gen > Researching: São Miguel island: Vila Franca, Ponta Garca, Ribeira Quente, > Ribeira das Tainhas, Achada > > > On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 8:03 AM <leonor.bert...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello all, >> Both my brother and my aunt were registered 2 years after they were born. >> They were born a month apart, my parents couldn't get married because dad >> was in the army and stationed elsewhere and they did not want to register a >> baby out of wedlock. My grandfather was away at sea when my aunt was born. >> My father returned home but my grandfather died at sea when my aunt was 4 >> months old. Long story short, the kids were 2 years old when they were >> finally registered but because there would be a fine if kids where not >> registered within the first year of birth, the kids were registered as if >> they were a year old instead of 2 years old, so their birth day and month >> is correct, but on paper, they are a year younger than what they really >> are. My question is, how would you register their birthday? Would you >> register their actual birthday or their on paper birthday with a note >> saying explaining the discrepancy? >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Azores Genealogy" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/azores.
