” it would have been natural in 1961 for a Kenyan to denote his race as “African.”
I can understand this part of it, but I don’t see why an American Nurse/Doctor would fill out the cert with a term not used on US certs. The form says “race”not “Nationality.” He was obviously a Negro, and that’s the standard term that we used back then. Why would they break from the US standard? Oh well,,,,,
“I don’t see why an American Nurse/Doctor would fill out the cert with a term not used on US certs”
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I think that part has been explained several times. It was the practice to use the same term the father used. It was not the province of nurses or doctors to change the father’s description to conform to their own ideas of correct usage or anything else. Their job was simply to ask the parents to state their own race and to write down what they said.
Im my opinion the “Africa” issue is unverifiable and cannot be used as a significant factor in declaring the BC to be a forgery.