That's Stupid. The controlling office of those birth certificate forms would not send them out with pre-stamped control numbers or let multiple nurses from a multitude of facilities do that. It's too much of a chance for things to go wrong like double numbers or as them being lost in transit or being incomplete and having to send the form back to and from the medical facilities. What does make sense, and that has been verified here, is to issue the control numbers when the birth certificates are filed or accepted by the state to be placed in the records at that time.
You’re not getting it.
There wouldn’t have been control numbers printed on the forms sent out to various hospitals. As final approval of the local hospital registrar’s work, a clerk in the state/county registrar’s office assigns and stamps the certificate number.
And as far as multiple nurses being registrars at different hospitals, that is absolutely a likely scenario. It’s the same for titling cars, each dealership has a title clerk who is a notary authorized by the state (at least here in Texas).
We would take our paperwork to the county office where we stood and waited for 30 minutes while the county clerk quickly reviewed the paperwork and returned to us anything that was in error.
While there, we received a new set of tags and a book of tag numbers. This was in 1986 - 1990 well before that stuff was computerized.
His mind is closed, his ego has become involved. He won’t be convinced, because it would mean admitting he could be wrong.
He’s done completely different work in a completely different state, therefore he knows better than anyone.
Didn’t you get that yet?!