Discrepancy, WWI Draft Registration source.
Aaron Alfred Martin
GPMH-HLG
I tagged his World War I Draft Registration Card. Now when I edit birth, this source indicates a date 10 July 1898, but when I expand the record, it gives the birth date 7 October 1898 (which is correct per the image).
I don’t understand where the 10 July came from. I wanted to report this in case this is a global problem and not just a one-off.
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In the source linker, you can see that the value stored for the date is "7 10 1898". That may be clear enough when those values are properly identified as day, month, year, but the display of that value in the source must be just looking at the stored value and interpreting that ambiguous value as month, day, year, which then is interpreted as July 10 instead of October 7. I doubt that there's anything you can do to correct it; it sounds like a problem in the display of the source because of the ambiguous date value.
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Alan, thank you. I noticed the discrepancy when I tagged this but didn't anticipate the ramifications (a word I've known all my life but might have never used before!). This makes me wonder if this, what I will call a "bug", affects all of these records for people born between the 1st & 12th of the month, except those born on Jan. 1st, Feb. 2nd, Mar. 3rd, etc. I will leave that to the experts. Thanks again.
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