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jormis29
Since: Mar, 2012
ISTR that there was a town/city of significant size that had a fire in the public records building in the early 20th century, and was for a few decades thereafter a popular place for false I Ds to list as a birth location, because it couldn't be proved otherwise. A similar situation occured in H Beam Piper's Four Day Planet (I think), and I beleive I've seen at least one other fictional example. Is this a listed trope at all?