My dad is a month younger now!
(To see the image larger just click on it.)
This is a trip! My parents have been going through all sorts of papers and recently came across a birth announcement that Grandma Baker wrote announcing Dad's birth. The date is August 3rd, but his birth certificate says July 3rd. So now that Dad is in his late 50's he learns that he's celebrated the wrong date for decades, can you imagine?
How did this happen? Well, as best we can tell is that when his birth certificate was made up it was a month off, and then when his aunt and uncle (his mom's brother) adopted him a few years later the true date got lost in the mix up. But with this being Grandma's own handwriting and with the postmark being two days after he was born it seems much more likely that she was right, and the certificate just never was corrected.
This also is interesting to me for a few reasons...
Instead of having the same birthday as my brother in law, my dad actually has the same birthday as my niece Eliza. And then, since it's actually in August and not July my dad and I have the same birth month, as my birthday is Aug. 23... AND from looking at the announcement, my mom said that my dad and I weighed the same at birth. Kind of all a trip. I just had to share.
Oh, and what also is a trip... the price of postage. These days I'm buying 2 and 4 cent stamps to use up stamps I bought and didn't use up before the rate increases and here the announcement was sent with a 3 cent stamp, just mind boggling!
Well, I guess that is all for now... I wonder if dad will want to start celebrating in August now, or if he'll just continue with how it's been for so long and continue to celebrate in July. To me it would be a little bit special for him to celebrate in August because we're both August babies! Ha, ha, ha!
Labels: birthday, dad, family history, genealogy, postage stamp
posted by Celestial Freak @ 10/13/2007 01:40:00 AM
13 Comments:
Crystal,
I think He should Celebrate in July & August!!
How Fun to come across this!
Yeah, I kind of think so too. I mean it would seem weird to not celebrate in July now, but I'd also love to celebrate August birthdays!
If I were him, I would celebrate both. One as his 'traditional' birthday and one as his 'original' birthday. Then he could get two parties! Are you sure that the birth certificate was wrong and not the announcement? You know we all have written the wrong date every now and again.
What a great find!
Dad seemed to remember hearing his mom say August after he read it. He remembered that when he was with mom it was always August. It seems to all of us that it was one of those things that kids just accept when a big change happens. It also doesn't seem too likely to me that grandma would have written the wrong date because she wrote out Aug and in pencil, so it would have been more then just writing 7 or 8 like on the birth certificate. No matter what, just seeing this was super interesting.
That is too funny. My grandmother has 2 separate birth certificates each a day apart so she celebrates her birthday on 2 days.
~Amy
That is wow wow wow amazing!! I think he should celctrate both!
This is so funny. Thanks for sharing.
Susan
Isn't that something...actually, that happened to one of my brothers in law, he recently found out his real birthdate was really 2 days earlier than what he had always celebrated! I haven't forgotten about the souvenir pennies you collect...I'm going to Niagara Falls on the Nov. 3 weekend and will get some for you:-) xo
What a neat story! I love the card, so pretty!
My DH's grandmother is a year younger on her birth certificate than her actual age. The reason for this, was she was born in the mountains at home or something like that. By the time the dr got to her parents house to issue the birth certificate it was one year later! So that is what the doc did. He put her date and the year he saw her on the certificate.
Can you imagine that!
Hi Crystal! Wow - that is such an amazing thing to have happen. So neat that he discovered it and can enjoy a new day to celebrate :) Blessings! Q
My mother always celebrated her birthday on September 5. But her date of birth was actually August 5. My grandfather was working away from home when my mother was born and he got confused!
Blessings and bliss
what a GREAT story to pass on... and a wonderful keepsake! thanks for sharing! lovely!
I was confused about "Dad is a month younger," then when I read the explanation, I thought it was very amusing!
The birth announcement is so pretty, it would look nice framed!
Katherine
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