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Regarding the place of birth issue, I have never used the country I was born with when some form asked for birthplace. Always used the present state, i.e. in wh
by rplnt 9y ago
Regarding the place of birth issue, I have never used the country I was born with when some form asked for birthplace. Always used the present state, i.e. in what country is the place I was born at.
Is that not common? Would you expect someone to write down GDR, USSR, or even Constantinople? Or is it again the same issue that people want to use what they like?
- ubertaco 9y agoOne use-case I can see where this would come up: ancestry/genealogy websites. Someone's grandparents may have been born in the Soviet Union, not in the modern Ukraine, from a cultural-historical standpoint.