{"id":4146,"date":"2017-02-11T17:02:38","date_gmt":"2017-02-11T17:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4146"},"modified":"2017-02-11T17:02:38","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T17:02:38","slug":"a-delayed-birth-certificate-by-fifty-years-part-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=4146","title":{"rendered":"A Delayed Birth Certificate By Fifty Years&#8211;Part I"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I never looked this long after the fact. A recent update to &#8220;Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates&#8221; on<em> FamilySearch<\/em> included a reference to a delayed birth certificate recorded for Anna Margaret Apgar in 1963. According to the index entry the registration date was on Anna&#8217;s fiftieth birthday. That in itself seems a little coincidental but there may be nothing to it.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4147\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anna-apgar.jpg\" alt=\"anna-apgar\" width=\"561\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anna-apgar.jpg 561w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/02\/anna-apgar-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 561px) 100vw, 561px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a request for the actual record and am also interested to see what documentation for the birth will be a part of this record since Anna was fifty years of age at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Anna\u00a0was one of three sisters whose births were not recorded at the time they happened. The delayed certificates for her siblings (who were a few years older than Anna) were recorded in the 1930s\u00a0and were actually filed with the contemporary birth certificates. These were easy to locate. I had located a christening record for Anna which provided her date of birth and the names of her parents. While I wanted a copy of her birth certificate, I felt I had adequate information regarding her birth and names of her parents by having the following records:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anna&#8217;s 1963 SS-5 form where she applied for a Social Security Number&#8211;admittedly this is not contemporary for her birth information.<\/li>\n<li>The 1921 era divorce of William Apgar and Mary Apgar gives Anna&#8217;s age and states she is William&#8217;s child<\/li>\n<li>The 1922 baptismal record for Anna<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All three clearly state the same set of parents and the SS-5 form and her 1922 baptismal record provide the same date of birth.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not certain if my search meets the criteria for an &#8220;exhaustive search,&#8221; but I was satisfied that it had been broad enough. \u00a0The divorce record and christening record were consistent and provided the same parental information and a date of birth and age that were consistent.<\/p>\n<p>Now that I know there was a delayed certificate recorded in 1963, my inability to find a contemporary one is not as surprising.<\/p>\n<p>The interesting detail will be if Anna&#8217;s mother made an affidavit for the delayed birth certificate of her daughter. She was still living in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I never looked this long after the fact. A recent update to &#8220;Illinois, Cook County, Birth Certificates&#8221; on FamilySearch included a reference to a delayed birth certificate recorded for Anna Margaret Apgar in 1963. According to the index entry the registration date was on Anna&#8217;s fiftieth birthday. 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