[A Citizen Reporter]

I think its that illegitimate birth and the surname thing that's going to hang them up.

[stlnative]

yeah... I think they did not know about the affidavit and no one said anything to them about the affidavit. So when the paperwork got passed on to the person who issues the BC, they left his name off the birth cert because the affidavit was not included and she marked down Widow. I think someone (Anna or Stern) then added his name on the birth certificate after they got it because they didn't know it could be corrected. Thompson may have pulled the altered version of the birth cert from the closet but the one on file probably does not have his name on it.

This is what I suspect - it will all probably come out what happened. I wonder if the laws over there are like they are here. That it up to you to figure all this out and to ask questions when you are unsure about something.