Tell me, how would you go about faking the ledger entry at the hospital where the notary entered your birth certificate?
My birth certificate was issued about 5 years after the fact. There is no record at the hospital, as far as I know, the hospital being gone. I don't know that they kept those records save to pass to the recorder.
You may be able to find it at the county recorder, but that's electronic now. All paper was destroyed. My parents just have the family record, there's no actual certificate of live birth.
Your birth certificate was recorded the day you were born, whether or not it was issued later. The hospital can be torn down, but that notary ledger still exists unless it was destroyed by some act of God, which would be almost unimaginable because they would have kept it in a safe made for record storage. This is all US law. Our country put in place mechanisms like this to prevent non-citizens from claiming natural US birth.
The record of live birth, certainly. But that's electronic at this point, the only way you can get a "certificate" is to do what I did. Go to the recorder's office and pay for it.
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