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David W. Perle
Matthew Rosenberg posted about revision list entries for his family which
predate when [he believes that] they were born, wondering about errors in transcription. While possible, I think that it's more likely that the believed dates of their birth are probably wrong. I've also come across this sort of thing, a great-grandfather of mine in particular. A few U.S. records after he immigrated here consistently provide his age/year of birth in Lithuania, but then I found two or three Lithuanian revision lists showing him as having been something like 5 years older! Explanations for why people become "younger" after immigrating vary. One is that people just didn't always actually know their ages or dates of birth, so they guessed that bit when they immigrated to a place like the U.S. where that's a bureaucratic stat that's asked of them. Another explanation is that women in particular--especially Lithuanian--were very vain about age and kept their ages lower, and their husbands did the same just so that they wouldn't "be" so much older than their wives! I've concluded that my great-grandfather was *probably* a few years older than his family ever knew. In the end...who knows! David Perle Washington, DC
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David Ellis
David Perle writes about his g-gf's birth date:
I think that it's more likely that the believed dates of their birth are probably wrong.... A few U.S. records after he immigrated here consistently provide his age/year of birth in Lithuania, but then I found two or three Lithuanian revision lists showing him as having been something like 5 years older! My experience is similar, but I came to a different conclusion. My g-gf was listed on a variety of US records (census, naturalization, death) with an age implying he was born in 1851 or 1852. The 1858 revision list from Lithuania shows his age as 9, implying a birth in 1849. But the previous revision list, >from 1850-1851, showed his parents as married with no children. So in this particular case I would give more credence to his birth date being 1851 or 1852. ------ David J Ellis Natick, MA 01760 djemkitso@verizon.net
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Rita or Paul Gordon <prg202@...>
Message for David Perle : Check the Census records in the community
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where he lived. Maryland Census Records are good. Rita Simon Gordon prg202@comcast.net
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From: LitvakSIG digest Subject: Revision list dates From: "David W. Perle" <dwperle@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 12:22:25 -0400 X-Message-Number: 1 Matthew Rosenberg posted about revision list entries for his family which predate when [he believes that] they were born, wondering about errors in transcription. While possible, I think that it's more likely that the believed dates of their birth are probably wrong. I've also come across this sort of thing, a great-grandfather of mine in particular. A few U.S. records after he immigrated here consistently provide his age/year of birth in Lithuania, but then I found two or three Lithuanian revision lists showing him as having been something like 5 years older! Explanations for why people become "younger" after immigrating vary. One is that people just didn't always actually know their ages or dates of birth, so they guessed that bit when they immigrated to a place like the U.S. where that's a bureaucratic stat that's asked of them. Another explanation is that women in particular--especially Lithuanian--were very vain about age and kept their ages lower, and their husbands did the same just so that they wouldn't "be" so much older than their wives! I've concluded that my great-grandfather was *probably* a few years older than his family ever knew. In the end...who knows! David Perle Washington, DC
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