[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

WND link

I was wrong above. E.F. Lavender clinches nothing now.

[Miss Didi]

Thanks...they mention in their article that they saw similar b.c.’s but not that they were signed by the same officials.

[1951Boomer]

I ask again what may be a dumb question: Wouldn’t one expect the occasional bureaucrats/registrars to have British names, given the deep ties between the two nations? How different is it from someone like Paul Running Bear signing a BC for a kid born to a German mother while she is visiting an Indian reservation here? Not the best example, but you get my drift. I’m neither advocating nor rejecting this document’s validity. I’m just posing a question about this particular point that has everyone so riled.

[Andy from Chapel Hill]

I once was a Director of a British PLC company and learned quite a bit about their bureaucratic and idiosyncratic ways.

Virtually every Brit I worked with used their first two initials and then their last name as their “business” name. Therefore, the “E.F. Lavender” and the “M.H. Miller” are EXACTLY the way the Brits sign their name or refer to themselves in business correspondence. They would never sign it “EF Lavender” or “M. Miller” or “M H Miller” or “Eric F. Lavender”.

The spacing and punctuation are EXACTLY CORRECT, based on my experience.

This is one of the first things I looked for to see if it was a fake. Maybe ask Snugs for verification?

[Dr.Deth]

All this business about E. F. Lavender aside, here's some corroborating evidence that proves the existence of E. L. Oduya.