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.
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.
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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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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