That is really too bad Carolyn - Are our Officials becoming "Bullies"? Ranks right up there with me being pulled out of line at the airport to be body scanned. Two people in front of me was a dark bearded man with two Burqa clad women(I assumed they were women) that sailed through without even being checked with a wand. I had my long hair piled on top of my head and they even went through that. I had a sneaky feeling they wanted me to resist or complain - I kept my big mouth shut and sucked it up. Some of the TSA agents are nothing short of BULLIES.
fern
From: Carolyn Bruce
Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 2:03 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [VA-ROOTS] Virginia Citations
Last year I wanted to go to an event in Canada, which now requires a
passport, so I hauled out my Bureau of Vital Statistics white-on-black
photostat of my birth certificate. Though it got me into school and
other things that required identification (including DAR and UDC), I was
told that this form of proof would not be accepted, that I had to have a
"standard" birth certificate issued by the Commonwealth of Virginia. So,
I drove to Richmond (a hundred miles each way), paid the $12 fee,
received my "official" paper, and filed for my passport. Still, I was
refused without more "proof" of my birth. Seems that the birth
certificate from the state didn't count because... having been born at
home and delivered by a family friend who was a doctor... I was not
registered with the folks in Richmond until five years after my birth...
in other words, when I was about to start school. Wasn't needed until
then, was it? Thus, as the census record on which I will appear hasn't
been released yet, and there was no family member living from the
generation previous to mine, I had to get my older brothers (aged 12 and
9 at the time of my birth) to sign affidavits before notary publics, and
get my school records from my hometown to prove my existence.
Shucks, I thought I was real all along!
Carolyn
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Carolyn HALE BRUCE
Virginia Beach, VA
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