I was at my mom's house this past weekend helping her purge out stuff that needed to go...my original birth certificate was found - well at least 2/3 of it. Part was missing. I threw what I had left of it in a bag I brought home and it got soaked from a leaking water bottle that was also in the bag. I tossed it - already had a reprint of one from Dallas County.
So if I run for office, my legitimacy would be questioned?
No, because all any of us EVER had is a COPY of what the county of our births keeps. An employee who is a gov't notary stamps or uses the seal thing to Certify that copy, stating that they made the copy of it and it is official.
All you'd have to do would be to contact the vital records dept in the county of your birth, pay for a Certified Copy of your birth certificate...they would go into the files, make a copy, stamp it or squeeze the seal thing on it, and there you go. A Certified Copy of your birth cert, which is the EXACT SAME THING for usage as an "original" b.c..
Physically impossible for Trig to be Bristol's baby. No so for the BC.
I don't think Trig is hers, but how is it physically impossible?
I tried getting an original copy of my birth certificate and all I could get was something stamped "Duplicate" and they told me to deal with it.
"Original copy"...lol. Hopefully they put their official seal or stamp on it, to show that it's a Certified Copy.
Anybody who knew his name, mother name and birth date (all public) could walk in and get his birth certificate. My girlfriend picked up my daughters last August. I just gave her that info and she picked it up for me. No ID needed.
In MO (or the state where your DD was born) might allow that, but other states have different requirements.
I remember from when the Hawaii official sealed his record that it wasn't just anyone who could get it...it was him, certain relatives (who I think are both dead), and an officially appointed (by the person in question) person. They wanted to make sure that no one made up papers that looked like Obama had sent him/her, so they closed it up tighter. Can you imagine the lawsuit, if they had fallen for some forged permission papers????
I've often wondered why he doesn't just produce the original or Hawaii doesn't produce the original to put an end to all this once and for all? Why produce a copy printed on a computer in 2008 (I think was the year)?
How could he produce the ORIGINAL? That's in the Hawaii office. I personally am on my third official Certified Copy of my b.c., b/c they keep shredding... CA certificates just aren't that good, it seems. I currently keep mine in a ziplock to try to protect it somewhat from the elements.
Could any of us actually go to our county of birth's vital records office and demand that they open their files and show the actual original they have??? I'm not sure that any of us would be allowed to do that.
And I've said this before, but what if that was allowed? What if it happened? The Vital Records people brought out the file, showed it...and someone lit it on fire, thereby destroying it??? What then?
From a previous post by someone born in Hawaii who has a child born in Hawaii...the design of the birth certificates has changed since then. Therefore, if someone requests a Certified Copy NOW, one gets the version out NOW.
Perhaps the "original" no longer exists. I had to obtain a certified copy of my birth certificate from California. All they could locate was a poor quality microfilm copy.
If CA is still putting out those sad half-sheets, yeah, that's what I have too. When I first saw hubby's WA b.c. I thought it was a joke! Thought it was something totally unofficial. My CA b.c. gives SO much more information! The WA ones give almost nothing (they are actually very similar to the Hawaii one shown) and look totally fake.
I actually didn't totally believe that hubby's was real until we got DS's WA b.c. and it was just the same. And WA b.c.s have just the swirly colored seal, while my CA b.c. has the raised seal. I really should order a new Certified Copy of mine, so I can see if they've changed!