Can anyone tell me if you get any more information off of a county issued
birth certificate as opposed to a state birth certificate? My husband has
recently found out that the man who raised him is not his birth father. The
man who raised him says he knows nothing, and his mother is dead. We have
been able to get an Indiana State birth certificate which only lists the
name of his birth mother and birth father, and the state they were born in.
No ages are given. We believe his birth father died in 1966 or there
abouts, and may have been in the service, but don't have enough information
to confirm this. Thought that maybe the Marion county birth certificate
might give more information. The Social Security lists several men with the
name that shows on the birth certificate, but we have no way of knowing if
one of them could be the one we are looking for without the Social Security
number. Believe that if we get an age at the time of the birth of my
husband, we might be able to narrow down the field. If in fact his Mother
did marry this man, they would have been married sometime between 1943 and
1948; possibly in Indiana, as his mother applied for a Social Security
number in the summer of 1943 in Indiana, and was single at the time. My
husband was born in 1945 in Indianapolis, and we are assuming that she
remained in the state between the time she applied for the Social Security
number and the time he was born. There is no family left alive that could
answer any questions, so we are left to our own devices. Any help or
suggestions would be most welcome. To those of you that have taken the rime
to read this THANK YOU If you can help, please reply to private email.
Thank you again
Lynda J. Becker
beckerw(a)ix.netcom.com