Death Certificates From the Past – James Bond and George Bond

James and George Bond, who were brothers, were 1^st cousins of my gt-grandfather John Howard Bond, so were my 1^st cousins once removed. They were sons of George and Elizabeth (Stillwell) Bond. George was the brother to my 2^nd gt-grandfather Solomon Bond.

In beginning genealogy classes we were taught that death certificates usually are accurate for the date and place of death. There may be mistakes in other information, such as date of birth and names of parents. I believe the informants did a pretty good job about the names of the parents. However, either the informant or the person who wrote down the information had a problem with George's date of birth. It shows his age at death as 73 years, 1 month and 10 days. He died 24 Jun 1932. But they show his date of birth as 14 May 1932. The year is clearly wrong. It pays to not believe everything you read.