What I am thinking is that there might exist 2 forms. One is the hospital copy with the weight and height, doctor’s name and exact time of birth. As the mother and baby are released home, they might be given the copy of the hospital record which is the proper birth certificate.
At the same time, there might be another form that certifies that you were born then and there. I requested a form like this for my kids when they had to receive their passports. It’s a much shorter form, and it’s format may change. For example, if I request a copy of the BC in 1997, it might look one way. If I request a copy for the exact same child in 2007, the form might look different. So we need a comparable form from 1964. Does it make sense what I’m trying to say?
I believe the 1964 certification form is what they used in 1964 to prepare certified copies of records. Indeed, the “Registration of Birth” may be different than the “Birth Certificate”.
I received a hospital certificate for my oldest daughter (born in IL in 1960) but nothing for my younger 3 born in CA — 1961, 1963, 1965. I had to order “official” certificates for all of them from the both states to enroll them in school, to get SSNs, and various otehr reasons.
The “hospital certificate” was very pretty with a picture of the hospital and my daughter’s inky footprints and a gold seal. My mother had one of those for me too, but the CA hospitals (at least mine) had discontinued issuing the fancy ones by the time my kids were born. The “hospital certificate” wasn’t good for anything except a souvenier anyway. I suppose if you child was kidnapped, you’d have a copy of the footprints, but that was about it.
Yes and you are close. But you need to understand the procedure in order to understand the form.
The kid is delivered (in a hospital). The doc fills in a piece of paper and inks the foot and prints it; many jurisdictions including many US states, he does it twice.
Often the hospital administrator is required to sign attesting that the doc was really there and did it. He or she then sends the original to the government agency recorder; the counterpart is given to mother.
You need a certificate to deliver for some purpose? You go see the government agency. One kind of certificate is of the entire record on the piece of paper signed by the doc--from early periods (1940's), maybe even a photocopy--which has an embossed seal and a signature of the issuing clerk.
The other kind of certificate is only some official saying under oath whatever the certificate says--words to the affect that "I have examined the original record; x was born here on such and such date; delivered at so and so hospital by Doc. Bump."