Replacing Your Lost Or Stolen Birth Certificate What

May 21st, 2008

Replacing Your Lost Or Stolen Birth Certificate What resources are available for people who need a copy of their birth certificate also known as a replacement birth certificate? Some people mistakenly contact the Census Bureau in searching for a copy of their birth certificate. The bureau only records population information and does not keep any records of births. The best source is actually very close to home. Birth records have been kept at the local or state level for a number of years. However the older you are, the less chance that you will be able find this information. The advent of social security in 1935 required the government to track individual earnings so the birth certificates of many people before that time have been physically lost or kept in unknown places.