“Right...( sigh!)..The next time I need my drivers license renewed I’ll show them an Internet print out of a newspaper microfilm birth announcement. Yeah! That should do it.”
I don’t think that is the point of the newspaper announcements. I know no member of my family ever called in any of my children’s births.
I’m 64. I was born in Washington, DC. The week of my birth my Grandmother on my father’s side of the family had my birth announced listed here in East Tennessee in the local Tri-Cities papers (three or fourm can’t remember exactly). When I was in my mid twenties, I found an old newspaper in granny’s storage closet with my birth announcement in it. ... (I wonder if there’s microfiche of those papers?)