A birth record from 1874 in 1915?

[warriorrabbit]

As far as I can tell, this gives no indication of why this wasn’t filed in 1874? I just stumbled across this the other day.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903 ... d=M98V-2ST

My great grandfather was born in 1877 (same parents) and was illegitimate, with a note in the margin of his birth record about how he was legitimized through their union a year later. And here’s this sister who’s even older. (Funny how they didn’t bother getting married for so long. Wish I knew the story behind that, like, what was the deal.) And I swear this record wasn’t in Family Search before, at least not last time I looked.

This record from 1915 (also long after she was married and had kids) doesn’t say anything about her illegitimacy, because by 1915 she obviously was retroactively approved, like my great grandfather.

I guess I should try to find her marriage record in Palermo to see if there’s more info.

My mother frequently mentioned an uncle Tulio, and when I first started doing genealogy seriously 20+ years ago, I looked for him and never found him. Was it a nickname, I asked. She didn’t know. She just remembered he lived in NY or NJ and had an outdoor bathroom, and I don’t even know if she meant an outhouse, or what. The things we remember from childhood…

But finding this record led me to him, solving my mother’s mystery.

Giuseppa’s husband was Musio Scevola Borda Bossana, and one of his brothers was Marco Tullio Cicerone Borda Bossana, and he emigrated and lived on Long Island. So an uncle-in-law. Can’t verify the outdoor bathroom, but feel confident I’ve determined who Uncle Tullio was. Bonkers. Never thought I’d figure it out!

[Danip]

The record are from 1915 because they were rewritten in that date because the original records were destroyed during the 1908 earthquake that destroyed Messina.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1908_Messina_earthquake

So the Civil State officer recieved an authenticate copy of the records and all the acts were rewritten since June 28th, 1914 in force of the Royal Decree N° 856/1911 that ordered the rewriting of Civil State records in the zones that suffered because of the earthquake, as stated in every record.

[warriorrabbit]

Do know about the quake (unfortunately the family lost some relatives), but didn't know they were mandated to reproduce records. I have so many other records, including from that same year (1874), that are original. I guess she was just in a stack/location that was damaged. (And I've been lucky so far.)