To be perfectly honest with you, sometimes it's what isn't in the records that makes all the difference. No father on the birth certificate usually means a child born out of wedlock, no marriage certificate might mean that they were never married (although sometimes it just means you have to work harder to find it,) and a wife with a husband who consistently lives elsewhere may mean marital difficulties.
Occasionally, the blatant and sometimes fraudulent lies on documents are so great that it takes a court to sort them out. I recently came across an Edwardian case of identity fraud in which a man impersonated a surgeon for many, many years - it was only through myself and a contact working through newspaper reports of court cases that the real story came to light.
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