Getting information correct
I was sent an email celebrating my great grandfather's birthday 26 December 1854. That information is totally incorrect. My great grandfather was born 26 December 1857 and he was 62 - just shy of his 63rd birthday when he died. If someone took the time to check his death record attached to him they would see the correct information. I have a feeling your using 1854 from someone else who no matter how many times is corrected refuses to change the year. I assure you Sylvester Musyznski is indeed my great grandfather and my information is correct contrary to someone else's.
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Have you considered that his birth date may be listed in multiple records and has the incorrect date in one of them? People born in the 1850s didn't always tell a consistent story about how old they were.
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If this (LB62-KZJ) is your great-grandfather, then I tend to agree with the user who went with 1854 rather than 1857: the latter is from his death certificate and grave, while the first is from his passport application, and also matches the age he gave at the birth of a child in 1894 and on the 1920 census. As a rule of thumb, documents are more trustworthy the closer they are to the event, and the closer the relationship between the person providing the information and the person the information is about.
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39jaf Death records do not contain information given by the person. Death records contain information that someone else thinks is true, and hopefully, most of the time it is, or information that officials think they heard the informant say. When you see that Sylvester self reported a different birth date in 3 documents prior to his death, that is when you need to think about accepting that the date HE gave for himself. The 1920 Census when he reported himself as 66 was only months prior to his untimely death. I suspect the birth year of 1857 has another explanation. His wife Rose was the informant and was probably in a great deal of emotional distress given the horrific cause of death he endured. English was not her first language according to the 1920 Census. If she was trying to tell the death certificate authorities (in a heavy Polish accent, and under a great deal of stress) that he was going to be 67 on his next birthday, perhaps they interpreted it as a birth date of 1857.
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