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An informant may provide several different bits of information on a death certificate. Keep in mind that their knowledge of the information provided may have varying levels of reliability. The informant may provide information about the deceased’s date and place of birth, parents, birth places of parents, and the deceased’s date and place of death. Their knowledge of some of those details may be more reliable than others. They may have actually met the parents of the deceased and knew them well or only heard about them once. What they thought was the place of birth of the parents of the deceased may have been where that person’s family was from or where the informant thought their family was from. And any informant can make a mistake.