Alex Polityka — original 1949 death certificate and birth-date conflict

Original Pennsylvania certificate of death, file 98777, registered no. 256, Ancestry collection 5164, record 6391191, image 42410_2421406271_0995-01047, inspected October 6, 2026. Alex Polityka died November 8, 1949, Shenandoah, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, at his recorded residence, matching 1940 census and 1942 draft. Informant Ida Polityka explicitly signs as wife. Married, coal miner. Certificate reports birth June 25, 1888, Poland, age 61; this conflicts with his self-reported June 22, 1883 on original 1942 draft and the Social Security index, and age 50 in 1940 census. It is not treated as a resolved birthdate. Both parent-name spaces contain Deceased, not actual names; their birthplaces are Poland. Do not create parents named Deceased or assign names from unrelated records. Burial place reads St. Casimir Cemetery, Shenandoah; burial-date entry appears 10-12-1949, which precedes the recorded November death. That internal inconsistency is retained; no silently corrected November 12 burial date adopted. Death date/place and wife linkage are supported independently of the inconsistent birth/burial dates. Government identifier omitted from prose; original retained privately.