d.o.b.
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[edit]Noun
[edit]d.o.b.
- Alternative form of DOB (“date of birth”).
- 1981, Donald Denoon, Roderic Lacey, editors, Oral Tradition in Melanesia, page 134:
- If we say Saiakali Parao was 20 years of age when Taylor came in 1938, his date of birth would be approximately 1918, so by the genealogical method of dating the ‘Time of Darkness’ occurred between the range of 1828-1858. That is: S. Parao d.o.b. 1918 J. Taylor came when he was 20. That is 1938, now he is about 56 , 1974. Yake d.o.b. 1888 / Warenge d.o.b. 1858 Taipu d.o.b. 1828 The darkness occurred in range of 1828-1858: Tendepane d.o.b. 1798 If I do the same to calculate the date of birth for each informant using the average of a 30 year period back to 3 or 4 or 5 steps from the informant’s age in 1974, then I come up with ranges of periods.
- 1987, Allan Bradley, One Man’s Education: An Autobiographical Scrap-book, →ISBN, page 66:
- When it came to completing the forms, Cambridge required to be given a date of birth for each candidate. This student genuinely did not know his d.o.b. so I told him he had better choose one.
- 1999, John Brooks Devoe, Devoe, DeVaux Family History, 1691-1991: The Story of an Acadian Family from Beaubassin to Bras d’Or, page 92:
- His d.o.b. is based on the 1838 census, the ages of his siblings in the 1871 census, […]
- 2000, James Hawes, “Birth of the False Birthdays”, in Dead Long Enough, Vintage, published 2001, →ISBN, page 58:
- Because what the big world does not know is that the conditions of the Ph.D. bursary which Harry applied for said you had to be under twenty-six to apply, and Harry had been twenty-six for several months. So what did he do? Simple. He went for the grand, big lie: he knocked six months off his life, just like that. He expanded each of his digging stints by an easy little month, and, with the connivance of some well-disposed lady digger, he promoted himself from bog-standard Digging Volunteer to official Site Assistant and bumped his d.o.b. six months forward.
- 2010, Richard Leon Herrick, Herrick Genealogical Register: A Genealogical Register of the Name and Family of Herrick from the Settlement of Henerie Hericke, in Salem, Massachusetts, →ISBN, page 1967:
- Submitter H023 has Druscilla’s d.o.b. as 07 April 1802.