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I’ve been in the bowels of a few Registers of Deeds... it shouldn’t be all that difficult for someone living in the jurisdiction he claims to be from to check.

It's simple. All you have to do is be a certain person and you can get your own BC for $10.

If you aren't that person, or a close blood relative, laws put in place to protect privacy and prevent identity theft make it virtually impossible.

Anyone who has a wherewithal to make a fairly good copy of a legitimate BC can print off a credible piece of newsprint. One low resolution image of what is said to be a birth announcement has been produced. The address given is questionable. It doesn't track with anything else.

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It's simple. All you have to do is be a certain person and you can get your own BC for $10.

If you aren't that person, or a close blood relative, laws put in place to protect privacy and prevent identity theft make it virtually impossible.

I didn't say it would be easy to get a copy, but it would be easy enough for someone to check.

Anyone who has a wherewithal to make a fairly good copy of a legitimate BC can print off a credible piece of newsprint. One low resolution image of what is said to be a birth announcement has been produced. The address given is questionable. It doesn't track with anything else.

Putting out the name of the paper, date & page number would allow checking by *anyone* interested in doing a fact check. Doesn't have the razzle dazzle that publishing on the web does, but its reliablity would be rock solid. There are good odds that more than one repository would have a copy of that paper, tho it would probably be a microfilm copy.