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How Not to Record the Birth of Twins
The certificate below popped up in the index as “Myrtle and/or Murray” and further investigation revealed twins on a single birth certificate. It is further complicated by different dates caused by being born around midnight between July 9th and 10th.
In this the first year of both birth and death certificates, perhaps everyone was still figuring things out!
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