If you haven't filled out a pedigree chart, you should do so now. In a way, world records are recorded kind of like vital records. When a person sets a world's record, say for eating the most banana cream pie in one sitting, a judge has to be there. This judge must be someone who is recognized by the organization in charge of recording world records. Not just anyone can approve of a world's record making it into the books of history.
Vital records work the same way.
If you were born in New York, then no doctor or hospital in Texas has the right to say you were born in New York. Only the New York hospital can issue your birth certificate. You would request it from the state in which the record was first created. Now, the same thing applies to your ancestors. Orange County still has a record of his birth.