| Show Americans Pluck Citizen Citizenship hip Plum iz S S S. S S S 5 fa I S S S S 'S S' S I 4 rA S S S. t M I f f vJ ir f 1 1 A 1 z- z LACK OF BIRTH CERTIFICATE CURTAILS ACTIVITIES Theo rheo O. O checks records with Mrs Z nabell Samson Proof of Birth Grows More Important Heres Here's a defense-born defense question question ques- ques ques ques- tion lion that's c causing a lot of trouble trouble trou trou- ble for lor a lot of people Can you prove you were born Sounds easy But you'd be s sur surprised r- r how many cant can't give an Ian affirmative answer Theres There's the stickler proving stickler proving it And that brings up up- the matter matter mat mat- ter of birth certificates Until war dr drums ms started rollIng rolling roll roll- Ing in Europe the average American didn't didn t bother much about those scraps of paper Apparently Ap Uncle Sam didn't worry about them either But Bur today well today well Here are a few of the things you cant can't do without proving roving birth Join Join the nations nation's fighting forces Get a defense job Get a government civil servIce service ice job That's only part of it Many legal matters can be settled on only y yby I by proving birth and many private private private vate organizations and governmental governmental governmental govern govern- mental agencies agencies' require from certified evidence of birth S If you have a birth certificate thank the foresight of the persons persons persons per per- sons concerned and hang onto it You'll need it If you you haven't one heres here's how to go about getting it Determine from irom parents or others who know exactly when and where birth took place Address request for a copy of your birth record to the state department of health in the state where you were born supplyIng supplying supply supply- ing your full name address addres date and iid place of 01 birth and names names' tf Of both parents I If If your birth was recorded a certified copy 01 of the record will willbe willbe be mailed you Theres There's a e. small fee aHa attached hed usually 1 1 But suppose it wasn't record record- ed eel Even y toy hundreds of Dr Storks Stork's del eries erles arent aren't being being being be- be ing jotted down in the records record The TheS The'S S Salt it L Lake Lace k City health department department department de de- de- de h ha has a suggestion or two for those in this category Have one or both parents sign a a. a statement giving details of your birth have It notarized and send If it f to W department of health officials in your native state Often the affidavit of a family family fam tam ily lIi friend minister midwife e physician or other reliable source will be taken 1 If parents are re dead Sometimes too too statements statements statements state state- ments written in a family Bible or ot a genealogical record wIllbe will willbe willbe be accepted Just to give you an idea of how many persons are in the birth certificate searching business business business busi busi- ness 2354 certified and Uncertified uncertified uncertified un un- certified certificates have been issued aside from first recordIngs recordings record record- ings so far this year in Salt Lake City Last year it was 1770 certified and uncertified fied fled copies And reports Miss Gertrude Moyle deputy registrar of vital statistics for the health d department department depart depart- part part- ment business is getting better Nowadays the health department department depart depatt ment s sends its workers into hospitals hospitals hos Ms- and the home and nd interviews interviews interviews inter inter- views the atten attending Jan for information needed on birth records records' S 'S Sif If the child Isn't named at birth a card is mailed to to the parents which they must fill out and return no postage needed to the special agent United States bureau of the census in care of the st state te h health aith depart depart- ment The information is ls recorded by the state and arid a transcript of the record is sent on to Washington D. D C C. for p permanent permanent perma perma- manent ma nent filing in census census' bureau vaults 5 Completed copies of the birth record are photographed a months month's collection n at a time by the city health department and nd I k kept pt in department files In annual annual annual an- an an an- nual v volumes lumes The original record record record rec rec- rec- rec I ord goes to the state When the census bureau gets its transcript a birth notification card cardis is sent I to the parents without charge Its It's all part of Uncle Sams Sam's new plan of keeping tr track ck of 01 his nieces and nephews |
