Is there really one informant on that record? Is it possible that when the information was being provided for the birth record, death certificate, or other document that more than one person was giving information to the clerk?
Don’t assume the same person provided every piece of information on that record you are using.
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How right! I’ve just come to learn that a published will abstract recorded the incorrect given name of a son-in-law. When I found the original will….