Sacramental Record Error

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I have a new Bible and am having a calligrapher enter the dates and as a convert I contacted the parish where I received my Sacraments as I couldn’t remember the exact date of my Confirmation. This was 48 years ago.🙂 The priest emailed me back the information and the date was completely off. I new I had been Confirmed in february, but he said the record said in September. How do I correct this error when all I have is a remembrance card that I received, but with no date? Thanks for your help.
 
No offense, but does it matter? As long as the record of your confirmation is there, what’s the difference? Especially if you don’t have a sure alternate date.
 
Get your calligrapher to record both: Confirmed at St X Church, by Bishop Y, in 1972. The Church records the date as XX September, but it has always been remembered din the family as a February event. Makes it more interesting, and accurate on all counts.
 
Medieval history is a hobby of mine and I sometimes find something like, ‘X was born either in 1290 or 1296’. It adds mystery. Embrace your history.
 
LindyLou said:
No offense taken thomasf. I was just unsure what to do.🤷
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IMO as long as you’re on the record as confirmed it doesn’t matter. It could be you were confirmed in Feb but it wasn’t recorded until September. You could always just put the year in your bible, that way it’s covered either way.
 
LindyLou said:
I have a new Bible and am having a calligrapher enter the dates and as a convert I contacted the parish where I received my Sacraments as I couldn’t remember the exact date of my Confirmation. This was 48 years ago.🙂 The priest emailed me back the information and the date was completely off. I new I had been Confirmed in february, but he said the record said in September. How do I correct this error when all I have is a remembrance card that I received, but with no date? Thanks for your help.
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By chance, does it read September 2nd?
 
FrDavid96 said:
By chance, does it read September 2nd?
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I guess I don’t quite understand your question.
MarkThompson said:
The day Keanu Reeves was born?
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I am not really sure what this has to do with my question. I thought I was posting a serious and legitimate question on a serious forum…but maybe I am missing something…

anyway…

to those who truly tried to help, thank you…
 
LindyLou said:
I guess I don’t quite understand your question.

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It was a serious question. Was it September 2?

Church records and documents often use the format “day-month-year” rather than the “month-day-year” that people in the US use in casual writing.

A baptism certificate is more likely to say “Ninth day of February” and not “February the ninth”

If whoever wrote the record wrote it as “9/2/74” or " 9.II.74" it could be misread as “September 2” instead of “the ninth of February”

I’ve seen it happen before. That’s why I asked. One of the baptism records at my current parish is written that way for a period of several years because the then-pastor was a European with a bad habit of writing numbers instead of spelling out months.

It’s also a shot in the dark that’s why I thought I’d ask if it was the 2nd of September, first, and if the answer was “no” then it would mean that it what I wrote above would simply not apply.
 
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