On 04-29-10, BOB ACKLEY said to DAVE DRUM:


BA>> Tell us, Ross, do YOU carry proof of your legal residence
BA>> in this country with you all the time?  Note that a
BA>> driver's license is *NOT* such proof; a birth certificate
BA>> is - if you can PROVE it is YOUR birth certificate, the
BA>> fact that you happen to be carrying it does not mean it is
BA>> yours.


DD> When I went to my birth county to get a copy of my birth
DD> certificate - to prove to the Social Security
DD> Administration that I was (A) who I said I was, and (B) of
DD> the age that I claimed - I got, instead, a form stating
DD> that my birth records (giving my name, date of birth, place
DD> of birth on the form) were on file with the County Clerk of
DD> that county.


BA>Decades ago I got a (thermofax) copy of my birth certificate from the
BA>CA Bureau of Vital Statistics (or maybe it was Department of...).  Still
BA>have it.



When my wife died, one of the documents I needed to present to the SS
department was my birth certificate. I called the county clerk's office in my
hometown, identified myself through information I had in memory that appeared
on my certificate, as well as some other verifying info, and within one week I
had a copy of my original birth certificate.





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