ANYONE "SURPRISED" BY INFO. ON THEIR OWN BIRTH CERTIFICATE?

[barkley]

my mom had to get one when my dad retired, had never seen it (she was in her 60's at the time). found out her real name was Agnes! she had been going by a nickname her entire life. she did a legal name change as quick as she could.

my cousin found out that as far as the government was concerned she was a year older (she was born right after the first of the year and someone spaced out and wrote in the previous year on it). she was like "hey i could have gone into a bar a year earlier ".

anyone else find any surprises?

 

[grinningghost]

My dad found out he was born in an ASYLUM!

My MIL always thought her birthday was Feb. 7th, but her birth certificate said Feb. 5th. Her mother dumped her on her aunt as a child, and apparently they never got all that straight during the changeover.

 

[Swimnoid]

All her life my DH's grandmother thought her name was Thelma. Then found out it was Velma on her BC!

 

[Kae]

I found it interesting that it has Fathers occupation but not Mothers.

Kae

 

[Kermit]

DH's birth certificate says that his name is Baby Boy. Something went wrong at the hospital or something, and his real name never got registered. His parents did name him within the allowable time frame, though. It's all very odd. His mom swears that his name is correct on his birth certificate, but we have it, and his name is clearly Baby Boy. Fortunately, we also have an "official" certificate from the hospital with his real name on it, so that name is on his Social Security card and passport.

 

[laurie31]

I was adopted and my parents always answered my questions about my birth parents and told me when I turned 18 I could get my original birth certificate if I wanted to. I just wanted to know my birth parents' names.

So, I turned 18, we went to Montgomery, got the certificate, but only my b'mom's name was on it. They said legally I didn't have a father because they weren't married. There was no father listed at all.

I had to seach for my b'mom to find out who my b'father was.

Laurie

 

[mickeyfan2]

Not me, but I know of a women who is in her 80s who has her sister's birth certificate. The family had a baby girl that died shortly after birth. They had another daughter the next year. The parents just used the sister who died's birth certificate. So she was always been considered to be a year older.

 

[mum4jenn]

Many many years ago when my Dad who had gone by John Reeves his whole life was actually named Henry on the birth certificate. Seems his mother named him after a relative and then got mad at that relative and changed his name but never had it changed on the birth cert.!! Dad had to get several documents and notarized statements proving he was known as John Reeves.


Also many years ago when I saw my older sisters certificate it showed that there had been something like 4 miscarriages before she was born.

 

[barkley]

i've seen loads with "baby boy" or "baby girl"-they got filled out before the parents told staff the child's name.

there are many more bc's these days that do not list a father. thats because if the parents are not married the hospital makes the dad sign a declaration of paternity which can be used by mom for child support...it causes many a new dad to pass on listing themselves.

 

[nativetxn]

Many years ago (when I was born), there was a place on the birth certificate that indicated if you were legitimate or not. On my birth certificate, it was originally marked "illegitimate" and changed to "legitimate".

I thought that was sort of interesting.

Katholyn

 

[helenk]

This is not a birth certificate story, but a friend of mine mother remarried when they were very young, the boys took on their step father's last name and all their life thought that they had been adopted.
When the oldest boy went to apply for a marriage license, he had to show his adoption papers, of course he went to his mother for the papers and found out that he was never legally adopted, his mother and step father just started using the step father's last name.
Needless to say my friend felt very hurt, and he never really liked his step father, so he started using his real father's last name.

 

[Cruisin]

My grandmother always went by the name of Alice Victoria but found out when she got her birth certificate (at a fairly old age) that she was actually named Victoria Alice

 

[DisneyAddict_M]

I didn't realize that my father was a janitor when I was born until I saw my bc a few years ago. Not that there's anything wrong with that....

 

[Tarheel Tink]

My father found out in his 40's that his birth certificate showed it was a multiple birth- he was upset that he was never told that.

 

[Wish I lived in Fl]

First and middle names were actually the reverse on BC and b'day was being celebrated a day late. Found at at 14 when went to get working papers.
My Mom said "I didn't think that was your Birthday"
Thanks Mom.

 

[pirateofthecarolinas]

My mother never had a bc. The old country doctor that delivered her at home never filed half of the births in the county. Her younger siblings had bc because they were born in a hospital. She and her older siblings had to jump through hoops when it came time to file for social security.

Lori

 

[gshanny]

My BIL snooped one time and discovered my DH had been adopted by his father when he was little, they both had the same mom. He ended up blabbing to my DH one day when he was in High School.
To add to the mess my DH answered the phone one day when he was in High School and a female was asking to talk to her mom. That is how they discovered they had an older half sister through the mom.
I won't even go into the other stuff that my MIL confessed to me one day.

 

[vetrik]

I once dated this guy for 3 1/2 years. We were in school when we met, he was one grade ahead of me, and I always assumed he was a year older than me. My family and I celebrated birthdays with him for 4 years, and he never said anything. I accidentally found his birth certificate one day (who keeps it in their CD case?!) and found out that he was a year older than I belived he was. He had stayed back in school, and never told me the truth about how old he was. It does explain why he never let me celebrate his birthday with his family, and why he never wanted me to see his baby pictures (he was born during the Blizzard of '78 here in the Northeast - so it would have been very obvious in the pictures that it was a year before I thought he was born)!

 

[LoraJ]

DH's birth certificate says that his name is Baby Boy. Something went wrong at the hospital or something, and his real name never got registered. His parents did name him within the allowable time frame, though. It's all very odd. His mom swears that his name is correct on his birth certificate, but we have it, and his name is clearly Baby Boy. Fortunately, we also have an "official" certificate from the hospital with his real name on it, so that name is on his Social Security card and passport.

This happened to my friend's stepfather. I don't know what his real name is. Everyone called him Babe.

 

[bubie2.5]

My BIL snooped one time and discovered my DH had been adopted by his father when he was little, they both had the same mom. He ended up blabbing to my DH one day when he was in High School.
To add to the mess my DH answered the phone one day when he was in High School and a female was asking to talk to her mom. That is how they discovered they had an older half sister through the mom.
I won't even go into the other stuff that my MIL confessed to me one day.

Wow! I'm curious, did she had bigger "surprises" than what you mentioned??