i got a birth certificate from New Castle and it said "baby boy" about 5 years ago and was told it meant the child had not been named yet as it was not required that the baby be named before it went home from the hospital and a lot of births took place at home with a midwife. your next step would be a church for a baptismal/christening record. good luck Pat On 11/19/06, IRIS L M MILLER <[email protected]> wrote: > > Carol, > I don't know about Pennsylvania, > But my father born in Kansas, 1908 was listed as 2nd male child on his > birth > certificate. His parents and the township he was born in. (I saw the > original records, They change the format to fit on the certificate, but > the > information was the same.) > I used census, death records and obituary for documentation. > > Iris > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Carol Lahr" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 8:56 AM > Subject: [PA] Question about Birth Certificates > > > Also it stated her name as Baby Girl Harner. > What I would like to know is if this is standard practice in this day of > ID > theft or is this the way her certificate actually listed her name. > > Sincerely > Carol > > > > > ********* > > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA > > ********* > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >