certificates of live birth

[burntcopper]

Sparked by an entry over on clothsprogs journal about ID stupidity.

You know how they always say they'll accept birth certificates?

What the hell does a 'normal' birth certificate look like? I wouldn't know one if you whacked me in the face with it. I've seen mine once and I doubt it would pass muster as ID, unless they were going with '....okay, no way would anyone take the trouble to forge *that*.' as their criteria. What does your look like?

For those interested, mine is a three-inch long bit of carbon-copy dot matrix paper with the hole-punch bits down the sides. It's severely tattered and creased. And says 'Certificate of Live Birth'. With... um... I think it had my parents' names, my name, 'girl' and the surgery on it.

Comments

[derryderrydown.livejournal.com]

Mine's kind of cream-ish with some reddish twiddly bits. It's a proper certificate-y looking thing, signed by a registrar and everything.

Yours sounds more like something the doctor would give you than a certificate of birth registration.

ETA: Actually, mine looks rather like this but red instead of brown.

[indiefairy.livejournal.com]

I have two, one's big and one's small and they have two different dates on them one has the actual date of my birth (11th March) and the other has 11th of April as the date of my birth. Unfortunatly neither my family nor friends have taken on the 'I have two birthdays lets celebrate both' idea :(

[sheldrake.livejournal.com]

I'm lazy, so I'll just say mine looks like this too. It looks nice and shiny and new because it's a recent replacement copy of the original.