The Day You Were Born Song
The Day You Were Born Song The Day You Were Born Song read more... Where is your birth certificate? It’s likely stashed in a filing cabinet along with other important documents or tucked in a safety deposit box, a testament to the significance of what might otherwise be mistaken for a simple piece of paper. But people didn’t always need birth certificates, or even a record of their own birth—and the history of birth certificates is much shorter than you might think. For centuries Births and deaths were documented in church records, not government ones. And early attempts in America to get the government involved in recording births stalled. In 1632, [...]
