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My mom found my great-grandfather's discharge paper from the US army. It's 107 years old.
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Notice the printed date, One thousand nine hundred and ________
Clearly this is one of the things they had to update for Y2K.
OP make sure you or a family member makes a good resolution digital scan of it. Bonus if you contribute it to something like Wikitree for future generations.
“Christian name first?”
That is a whole basket of assumptions about people.
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In this case christian name is a synonym for given name. I bet if someone was baptised with a name that doesn't match their legal given name it would be the wrong choice in this context.
Everyone knows that there were only Christians in America before Obama /s
Bah. We were trying to buy a house older than that. And it wasn't a fancy "heritage" house either.
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