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Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 132 Send Message	Janet	Report	15 Mar 2007 09:22
	I am trying to find a marriage between a owen edward saunders (died 2nd world war) approx 1943.... and a edith ivy saunders nie brown. I have been on find my past and just cant find it! Is it possible to fake birth certificates and that this man wasnt my uncles father atall? any help would be grateful thank u Janet
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 81 Send Message	Emma	Report	15 Mar 2007 09:26
Member Since: February 2005 Posts: 81 Send Message	Do you know roughly what year they got married?
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 132 Send Message	Janet	Report	15 Mar 2007 09:33
	It says on my uncles birth cert that this man died 2 months before he was born(quite sad really) and my uncle was born october 1943, this oven edward saunders was a corperal of the american airforce (so it says on his birth cert) thank u janet
Member Since: August 2003 Posts: 63,454 Send Message	ErikaH	Report	15 Mar 2007 10:33
	It may be that the mother lied when registering the birth, to cover up the child's illegitimacy. The registrar can only record the information he is given......... Reg