How can someone obtain their Birth Certificate after 62 years and never being registered only baptized?

My father was born at home in 1945 in a small Texas town. His mother gave him his Baptismal Certificate and social security card as a teenager and has had them since. He was never given a birth certificate and until now was able to get along with out it because he possessed the other two documents.


As my father is nearing the age of social security benefits, he began the paper work process. At this time he was asked to provide is birth certificate because the social security office shows his birth year as 1944 (which is incorrect) and his baptismal and driver's license both have his birth year at 1945. He never received his certified copy of his birth certificate so he followed to procedures in obtaining a new copy. When he contacted Austin Vital Records, he was told that they were unable to find his birth certificate. He then spoke with his older sister and she informed him that their (now deceased) parents did not register them at birth. What can he do?|||If you really can't get around having a birth certificate, you can get a judicial birth certificate.





This is where a judge in the town of his birth, reviews the baptismal certificate, social security card, selective service or tax records or anything else you can get, as well as notarized statements of witnesses, if any, and orders that the birth be recorded.





I have even done this for people who were born in Vietnam and could not return to testify. The way to start is to call the vital records office, ask to speak with a supervisor and see if they can help. If they can't, call a lawyer in the town he was born in.|||Continue to follow up and get answers to your questions.|||He talks to the Social Security people and explains what the situation is. They have been through this thousands of times and can handle it.





They may want more information, if available, such as an entry written in a family Bible or a sworn statement from a family member giving his actual date of birth.|||Get back in touch with Austin Vital Records and ask what he needs to do to get a certificate issued. Even if he never had one before, it' seems to me that it should be possible to get one and that seems like the logical place to start.|||yes get a lawyer to get it done faster.