[Aeolun]

How do you go and register a 7 year old as having been born a few days ago?

[vorpalhex]

I don't think you bring the kid with you.

[Scoundreller]

Or bring another kid with you. In a small village, the gene pool is pretty shallow and it’s not hard to look like anyone’s child.

It’s not like they’re going to waste money on photographing every person in a tiny village either.

[stickfigure]

I'm guessing that paper records were not especially rigorous in Greece in the early 1900s.

[omega3]

With the help of a bribe.