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My father always used the date of birth December 23, 1909. He also had stated that he was born on the 10th of Teveth on the Jewish calendar. I once looked that date up and found that it corresponded to Dec. 22 that year, but since Jewish dates run from sundown to sundown, I supposed that the 10th of Teveth that year began at sundown on the 22nd, extended until sundown on the 23rd, and my father was born after midnight. So no particular problem. YET.
I just recently got to see an image of my grandfather's petition for naturalization. It shows his children's names and dates of birth, and my father's DOB is given as 12-7-09. It is certainly possible that, since Latvia, where my father was born, was part of Russia in 1909, and Russia used the Julian calendar, the correct date of birth should be shifted by 13 days to convert from Julian to Gregorian. This ALMOST reconciles the dates, but not precisely -- if 12-7-09 was on the Julian calendar, it was 12-20-09 on the Gregorian. Still, off by 3 days.
Presumably there is no way to check the actual birth records. First of all, they'd probably be in Russian, which I can't read. Second of all, in World War II, the Nazis went through that area, and there's not a lot of a chance that the records would have survived that.
So what date would you believe? Dec. 7, or 20, or 22, or 23?
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