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To: DiogenesLamp
I will further add, (for those who have not already been so informed) that *I* was adopted, and *I* have a birth certificate which was created six years after I was born, and is in fact a replacement birth certificate that lists my new last name, new parent's names, etc.

That's only germane if it would not be apparent to a competent investigator examining your birth certificate that it is an amended birth certificate.

12 posted on 03/01/2012 2:07:47 PM PST by cynwoody
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To: cynwoody
That's only germane if it would not be apparent to a competent investigator examining your birth certificate that it is an amended birth certificate.

It has no such indication. I looked at it very closely to see if there was anything that said it was a replacement birth certificate.

This confounded me for a bit, because the document has a stamped seal from the state attesting to it's veracity, and I couldn't figure out how they could assert it was accurate when I knew for a fact that it wasn't. (I have always known I was adopted. I remember the judge asking me if I wanted to take the name of my new daddy.)

They get around this problem with clever wording. The Stamp says this:

I hereby certify the foregoing to be a true and correct copy, original of which is on file in this office.

It IMPLIES that it is a copy of the "Original". It does not SAY that it is a copy of the Original. It SAYS, the "Original" "is on file in this office."

I guess that is why they have clever lawyers writing the wording. The idea is to not let adopted children become aware that they were adopted.

33 posted on 03/01/2012 2:50:36 PM PST by DiogenesLamp (Partus Sequitur Patrem)
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