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csziggy

(34,189 posts)
Tue Apr 16, 2019, 03:20 PM Apr 2019

When I heard I'd have to have the various proofs for ID

I got my Mom to order a new birth certificate from my home town (the county seat). I went in with the original certificate from the hospital (with my baby tootsie prints), the birth certificate my parents were given by the county, and the new one. The driver's license bureau was only interested in the new one.

Since I never changed my name after getting married, that simplified things. But the 20 something clerk did not recognize the style of my original Social Security card - the only one I have ever had, issued when I was a kid. She nearly turned me away until an older clerk made her look at the poster on the wall with every style of SS card that included mine. In fact I still have the original paperwork with the space where that card was removed from the card - and another copy of the same style SS card still attached.

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