Ross County OhArchives Photo Document.....Birth Certificate - Amelia I. Miller May 6, 1976
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Ralph Cokonougher rcokon@hotmail.com March 23, 2012, 4:20 pm

Source:             Probate Court
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      This photo of the official birth certificate for Amelia Irene Miller 
records the same information that is recorded in the book of births in the Ross 
County, Ohio probate court office.  I have seen the actual book of births and 
can verify that it matches the information in this modern birth certificate.  I 
obtained this birth certificate from the probate court.

Additional Comments:

	Amelia Irene Miller was born 13 July 1900 on Lower Twin Creek about 800 
feet southeast of Turkey Ridge Road in Twin Township, Ross County, Ohio.  Some 
people in the family will disagree with the birth date.  They will do so 
because Amelia always celebrated her birthday on the 21st of July, and because 
Amelia herself, until just a few months before her death, believed that she had 
been born on the 21st.  She believed so because she had never seen an official 
record of her birth, and because the family bible recorded that she had been 
born on the 21st.  However, when Amelia turned 61, she started gathering 
documents to qualify for social security in the coming year.  She sent off to 
the county courthouse for any record of birth that they might have, expecting 
that they would have none.  To her surprise, her birth was not only recorded, 
but the official county record showed that she had been born on the 13th of 
July, not the 21st.  No one knows whether the date was recorded wrong in the 
family bible, or whether the wrong date was put into the county records, but 
either way, there could only be one official birthdate, and as usual, the 
government’s version won.  Amelia celebrated her birthday twice the following 
year.

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