In a message dated 01/19/2004 10:14:04 AM Central Standard Time, floralp@earthlink.net writes: > . Twice I paid to get a birth certificate, forty years apart, and all it > contained was mother's and father's names, no other information about them. When you send for a birth or death ciertificate you should ask for the lomng one, other wise the send the short one. This may help you out.