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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

In most states you have two options.  One long drawn out bunch of forms 
petitioning your state to anti up a copy of the original.  Or, you can get a 
court order and get a copy of the long form.  They put the things on film 
and store them.  They don't routinely produce them.  Instead they have the 
standard info on a computer and pull it up to print it.

You can also get them, in most cases, from the hospital you were born at. 
Well, unless, of course, you are me.  The hospital that I was born at had a 
major fire and all their original docs were destroyed.

Lynda
The press corp is fact-adverse but very fable friendly.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lynn Wigglesworth" <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com>

> I guess I'm still confused about this. I've never seen an "original" birth
> certificate. My state doesn't issue them, and apparently, neither does
> Hawaii. In fact, the website for that Hawaiian Homestead program states
> that
> Hawaii no longer issues 'long form' birth certificates. After my children
> were born, PA sent me official, legal, birth certificates, and they look
> just like Obama's. They show the county and state of birth, and are signed
> by a state official, not a hospital.
>
> I couldn't produce a 'long form' birth certificate either, because my
> state
> doesn't issue them. There's no option to get any other kind of birth
> certificate in Pennsylvania other than what I have; what they issue meets
> the requirements of the State Department to prove citizenship (I got a
> passport with it).I think many people are talking at cross-purposes as to
> what is a 'real' birth certificate. I think every state is different as to
> what they issue; maybe that's why people can't agree on what a 'real'
> birth
> certificate looks like.