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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2009-09-01

"If I can't see the vault copy of my own birth records, why should I be able to see Barack Obama's?" -- southpaw (Baloon Juice reader), 2009-07-29

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posted by [personal profile] skreidle at 04:39pm on 2009-09-01
...who can't see their own birth certificate? I think my mom has mine.
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posted by [personal profile] skreidle at 04:40pm on 2009-09-01
(The original, I mean. I'm sure there's a Records Office somewhere that also has one.)
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 04:59pm on 2009-09-01
They gave her the original and stored a copy instead of the other way around?

Unless Virginia birth certificate forms in Virginia in the 1960s were printed in white ink on black paper, and doctors carried white pens to fill them in with, the birth certificate they gave my parents for me was a notarized copy, not the original. When I lost it and had to ask for another, I got a very pretty computer printout instead of an inverted photocopy of the original.

Some birthers are saying that an official copy isn't good enough, and demanding to see the original / official state copy ... and as I understand it, Hawaii currently keeps only digital copies as the official master record, so there is no longer any "this is the very piece of paper the doctor signed by hand" original to show anyone, for anyone born in that state. I've got no idea whether the Original Piece Of Paper for mine is still in a file cabinet in Virginia or not (they're using a computer record to generate Official Copies now, as I noted), and would have no idea whether I could get in to see it with my own eyes if it still exists.
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posted by [personal profile] skreidle at 05:08pm on 2009-09-01
What I have/had come to think of as my original was one of those beige-paper-with-background-pattern-and-state-seal jobbies. That may be a duplicate, I'm not certain, but I've never seen any inverse copies of, well, any.
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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:27pm on 2009-09-01
I don't think any other birth certificates I've seen (a very tiny sample) have been white-on-black like that either -- for all I know that may have been specific to a particular period in Virginia -- but that mine was so was a tip off that it wasn't the original original.
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posted by [personal profile] syntonic_comma at 12:08pm on 2009-09-03
I think I saw mine white-on-black many years ago. It was from NC, and about 5 years earlier than yours.
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posted by (anonymous) at 07:19pm on 2009-09-01
I've never seen George W. Bush's original birth certificate. I don't believe he was a natural-born citizen, and I demand that all of his administration's official acts be nullified. :-)
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