So the BC that came with me is a copy? I'm old enough that the thing wasn't xeroxed :) I mean all the sigs and info are handwritten on a typewritten form. No autopen, and yes indeedy, I'm dating myself. If that's a copy, how is it different from what the bureaucrats have stuffed in a drawer somewhere? :)
I don’t know about your state of birth, but I was born in California, and I have a copy that is black where it should be white and vice versa from 1955, a photocopy negative. My daughter was born here in Florida in 1986 and all we got was a copy, not the original, which went to the county registrar.
Were you born at home? My wife was delivered by a mid-wife. Her BC is dated several days after her actual birth, but she was born on Christmas eve, so I can imagine that all the county offices were closed for a week..................