This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davidson/Butler Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FNR.2ACEB/3219 Message Board Post: I have been forever looking for a birth certificate for my late father: Allen James Davidson. (maybe Reney or Renning) he was French/Indian. He was born (supposidely) in Hartford, Connecticut on March 12, 1930...to Allyn James "Davidson" or Reney/Renning? and to Alice Marie Butler (Bouthillieu). My grandmother Alice was about 15 at the time and my grandfather was 25 or so. My grandmother was from Springfield, Mass. My father did not have a birth certificate when he entered the military. He had to get three people that knew him to say he was born in the USA on that particular date. (as told to me by my mother). I have had someone check to see if any "allen" was born on that date in Hartford and there is no such record. Now I am wondering if he was born at home and was not registered at all? Or maybe was born out of wedlock in Springfield, Mass.??? Can someone please help me.... thank you Linda