Basically, the long form contained all of the information including the doctor's signature and really is a source document for the archive. The short form is just a certification from the state that this person was indeed born on a particular date in the state under a particular name which is basically all that is needed to prove existence to get a driver's license, school admission, etc. Otherwise clerks would have to find the original document, make copies, and seal them.
The short form is just a certification from the state that this person was indeed born on a particular date in the state under a particular..” _____________________________
Thanks.
But, doesn’t the archive source document that you also mentioned have to exist as the baseline for making the short form ligitimate? In other words, the short form is only as good as the actual and not presumed existence of the long form, which, in this case, they can’t/won’t/don’t produce?