Ancestry/Genealogy

Grasswire2

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12. so here's the resulting action that must be taken

Mon Dec 13, 2021, 11:51 PM

Dec 2021

I had to order a new certified copy of her birth certificate from 3,000 miles away.

And now I have to get my brother the informant to fill proper death info out and have notarized an affadavit swearing to the correct information.

Then I send that to the state of her death, and they correct the death record.

But then, after some unknown period of time, I'll have to order another certified death record (correct info) in order to have the true and proper document in my hands.

The lesson. Someone needs to check the death information more than just one informant, within a year of the death.

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this is crazy. The info on my mom's 1986 death cert is wrong. [View all] Grasswire2 Nov 2021 OP

No, you have to correct it. no_hypocrisy Nov 2021 #1

she's been dead for decades. I don't have a passport for her. Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #4

Agree, it needs to be corrected. madaboutharry Nov 2021 #2

Are you sure it is your mother's death certificate? Irish_Dem Nov 2021 #3

It is hers. Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #5

Death cert info is typically incorrect because the informant didn't know Irish_Dem Nov 2021 #6

My brother. Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #7

These mistakes most likely did not cause problems in estate settlement issues. Irish_Dem Nov 2021 #9

My sister, who is a genealogical hoarder to the nth, would have her birth cert... Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #8

In researching documents from several family members who died before I was born, I found similar hlthe2b Nov 2021 #10

that would be fine except for genealogical accuracy. Grasswire2 Nov 2021 #11

so here's the resulting action that must be taken Grasswire2 Dec 2021 #12