Record birth with County

[juststartingout]

Anyone here ever recorded the birth of their child with the County with a certificate of Live birth to have on record? (No birth certificate). Would this serve as identification? If this route were taken, would a National Passport application be needed to use for ID in addition?

[fulltitle]

Originally Posted by juststartingout

Anyone here ever recorded the birth of their child with the County with a certificate of Live birth to have on record? (No birth certificate). Would this serve as identification? If this route were taken, would a National Passport application be needed to use for ID in addition?

Without Prejudice.
What would your objective be in recording such with the County?

[charlesa6]

Good question, fulltitle. I concur.

[juststartingout]

I guess what I was thinking of was making a public record, having it on the books. i mean, common law marriages are often recorded, deaths are too, so why not a birth?

I know the Family Bible serves as a legal document, but in some places I've looked it doesn't seem as if it would always be acceptable - or would be hard to get someone to accept it because they aren't used to seeing that.

[mikah2k]

Originally Posted by juststartingout

I guess what I was thinking of was making a public record, having it on the books. i mean, common law marriages are often recorded, deaths are too, so why not a birth?

I know the Family Bible serves as a legal document, but in some places I've looked it doesn't seem as if it would always be acceptable - or would be hard to get someone to accept it because they aren't used to seeing that.

That's why you have to taste/try it for yourself.
In response to the question "What experiences are most valuable...?" A wise man once told me "Your own, of course."

I perceive two concerns:
1) Making the event of public record.
2) Avoiding divulding too many facts.

If you're concerned about having a public record, recording a "notice of live natality" that references sufficient (but not all) facts of the live birth from your Family Bible may be helpful. Also publishing the same wording in a legal paper or a paper of general circulation (perhaps even a paper of general circulation mostly written in a non-English language) would serve your purposes. Obviously keep a copy of the published notice for future reference.

For example suppose you want to open a bank account in the name of a trust. The bank will request all pages of the trust declaration. However, if you had a compact version of the trust (certificate/affidavit of trust) which contains only what the bank has a "need to know", that compact version should satisfy the info-hungry bank.