Fluther: Can you tell us something interesting about your birth certificate?

Can you tell us something interesting about your birth certificate?

Asked by Love_my_doggie (12959

) January 9th, 2016
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Examples. Were you born on the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination? When you learned arithmetic, did you figure out that you were born 5 months after your parents’ wedding? Had you always been told that you’d been born-and-raised in Texas, only to find that you were born in Boston?

My birth certificate says that I was born in the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Yes, that’s the full, legal name of the country’s tiniest state. Not many people know this. I do, because my birth certificate says so.

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I found out that, if we accounted for leap day, my brother and I are exactly 2 years, 6 months, and 5 minutes apart.

Also, yeah… My parents married in July, I was born in December…

Seek (34805

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I’ve a copy of my birth certificate that is a post card with a purple stamp, my grandfather couldn’t get me into the baseball games for under twelve. I was under ten. So my grandfather got a copy from the city he, so he could carry in his front pocket.

Tropical_Willie (31118

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Hmm, ok. Funny question, but it’s nice and original.

I don’t have a birth certificate. I was born in the state of Vermont while my parents were residents of Massachusetts. So what I have is an official Commonwealth of Massachusetts certificate of registration of a birth that took place several days previously in Vermont.

Jeruba (55824

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Mine was issued by the US Department of State because I was born in Korea and is signed/sealed by a Vice Consul.

It’s called a “Certification of Birth Abroad.”

kevbo (25672

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Does anybody have a birth certificate from the Territory of Hawaii?

Love_my_doggie (12959

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It has my footprints.

stanleybmanly (24153

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Deleted by me.

JLeslie (65411

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I’ve never seen it before. I was born at 3:33 on the 3rd. (Or so I’ve been told…)

dxs (15160

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I was born in New York City.

jca (36062

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I was born on the same day (not year) that Luna 1 became the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

dammitjanetfromvegas (4601

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I’ll try again. I’ll use @jca‘s example. I was born at Walter Reed Army Hospital in Washington, DC.

JLeslie (65411

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It has the shape of the state of Alaska in the background. I assumed all states put an outline, but I just looked at some pictures online and it didn’t look like it.

AshLeigh (16340

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The person who entered my name in the records took my first name and what was to be my middle name, and joined them together to form a hyphenated first name. I have no middle name. I have, however been called many names and could, presumably easily pick one of those to be listed. When taking tests where you darken the bubbles for my name -attempting to add a hyphen was tough enough! Wow!

msh (4270

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I was born 24 inches long.

RedDeerGuy1 (24453

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It, & this is incredible, it has my birthday on it.

ucme (50047

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It says at the top 17 & 18 Victoria Cap. 80, § 37.

I only now found out what this means. The 17 & 18 Victoria tells you that it is from a law passed during the 17th-18th year of Queen Victoria’s reign (1854). [Caput orCapitulum] Cap. 80 is Chapter 80 (the 80th statute passed in that year). That law is Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1854, the same law as introduced civil registration of these events in Scotland and brought the General Register Office for Scotland into existence.

flutherother (34518

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Everything on it is a lie.

ragingloli (51957

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The one I had had my footprints on it. The nurse took the time to be sure both extra toes showed. It’s been lost now and all I have are copies from the courthouse with no prints on them.

cazzie (24516

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The doctor who signed my birth certificate was 91 years old.

The certificate I have was issued in 2000 (I was born in the 1960s).

I Googled the doctor out of curiosity. When I saw his age (born in 1909), I assumed the signature must be from 1962.

But nope, looking further, he was elsewhere when I was born, and he was the county health officer in the year 2000 at age 91.

jaytkay (25810

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It has the time that I was born (as well as the date, obviously)

Stinley (11525

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The name of state I was born in is 4 letters long.

elbanditoroso (33145

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Ohio?

JLeslie (65411

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Iowa? Utah?

Love_my_doggie (12959

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Mass.?

jaytkay (25810

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Ny NY?

RedDeerGuy1 (24453

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Mass? Lol.

NY, NY just as funny.

JLeslie (65411

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I was born on the same date that Vesuvius erupted. Not the same year . . . .

Tropical_Willie (31118

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It states that I was born, Dec. 26th 1959 at Presbeterian Hospital in Albuquerque New Mexico. I weighed 5 lbs. 7 and a half ounces and was 19 inches long. What’s interesting is that a 5 lb. baby can grow into a 150 lb. adult. lol

Coloma (47193

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I live in ABQ and worked for Pres.

kevbo (25672

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