LadyMaverick wrote:Good morning!
The SSecurity office called about DMIL birth date. There has always been a well-known discrepancy between the date DMIL mother said she was born and the date the birth certificate shows. ANYway, we will take the official birth certificate to SS office and hopefully this will settle it.
dUnc had two birthdates. The one he was born on and the date his birth was registered by the priest (who put in that day, not the birth day on the form.)
Towards the end of his life, he made sure to celebrate both of them! I still remember him telling the waitress, "Today is my second 100th birthday!"
Our hair stylist friend had three birthdates. The one the family celebrated, one a few months later, and the one he was given when he immigrated into Canada.
The first was the actual one.
The second was later because you had to register all births within a certain time frame or be fined and his parents hadn't met the deadline so they made up a later date (the same is true for one of our refugees, officially she is 6 months younger than her actual age.)
The third was due to a date format error. His paperwork showed something like 04/05/60, meaning May 4, 1960 but the immigration officer entered it as April 5, 1960. Our friend saw the mistake but was too afraid to correct the error at the time because the officer held so much power over our friend's ability to enter Canada, so he accepted the new birthdate.
I immediately texted DFriend and told her DS14 hair needs her help, so she is fitting him in during her lunch hour today. 
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