On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, David Strickland wrote: > I ran into an instance where the father was identified as ***DO NOT > ISSUE***. I then checked for that name for the father and found 21,585 such > records. I could not believe that there were that many "protected" unwed > fathers, so I contacted the Texas State Dept of Health for an explanation. > > It seems that when a person dies and the Department can identify his birth > certificate, they change the father's name to ***DO NOT ISSUE*** as an > internal code to not issue a certified copy of that birth certificate to > anyone claiming to be the deceased person! Obviously they are not catching > very many death/birth relationships as I only found 1 out of the 100 or so > deceased people I have checked. > > Anyway, thought all the listers might "enjoy" another instance of the > bureaucratic mentality of dealing with a legitimate issue. > > David Strickland > [email protected] > Thank you for the clarification! David