[Tspud1]

So I could get your birth cert if I sent in the $20? Yours and several others if I felt the need to vote several times.

[Peet]

So I could get your birth cert if I sent in the $20? Yours and several others if I felt the need to vote several times.

Sounds that way. The city clerk's office had this:

  ARE BIRTH CERTIFICATES PUBLIC RECORDS?
  Unless your parents were not married at the time of
  your birth, birth certificates are available to any 
  member of the public.

All you have to do is (1) know full name, (2) date of birth, (3) place of birth (hospital name or home birth), 4) father's name, (5) mother's maiden name, and (6) cough up $20.

Note: I remembered wrong! It was $10 and a S.A.S.E. if I use the town clerk of the town I was born in-- but more if I go through the state ($28).

Regarding the one restriction on my records being public; some say I'm a real bastard -- but metephorical doesn't count in this case... ☺

Not like Hawaii, huh?