Baptists are baptized as older children/teenagers/adults, not as infants. When you are baptized there is no name change. It is possible that there is an amended birth certificate but if there was, I would have though Miriam would have had a copy of that one and not the original. There is no way I can check to see if there is an amended birth certificate. Georgia won't release it. They will only release birth certificates to the 3 people named on it no matter how much time has passed. I think it is more likely that whether her parents added a middle name or she did it was an informal change. It isn't that big of a deal but it is interesting. I have her legal name recorded in the database with her middle name explained in the notes. Miriam has 2 sisters still living. One has advanced Alzheimers so no answers there. The other sister was much younger (16 years) and she says that she always knew her as Miriam Lillian. Michele