Name change delay.

[agent_dani]

Unfortunately, this will be delayed a bit. I just noticed that the copy of my birth certificate that I have isn't acceptable for the purpose because it does not list my parents' names. Such is life.

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[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It it's anything like the BC system here, it sounds as if you have what they call a 'short form' BC rather than a full BC. It's reasonably easily rectified, at least, if annoying.

[agent_dani]

That's what it is. Curiously, when windrdr obtained a copy of hers eight years after this copy of mine was obtained, she got one printed on the same format of stock but with her parents' names printed on the lower half (mine is simply blank there.)

It's a little less easily rectified as the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania claims to not have a "long form" as such; what information is printed depends on the reason for the request, but they won't tell what reason to pick to get which information included. Mine obtained in 1991 was for a passport and doesn't. I went with "legal" for this request.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

The long form and the short form are at least different in style here- I possess a copy of each. The short form assumes the same name as one's parents which mine certainly wasn't up to when I married, while the long form only gives the 'given' names and assumes the rest.

A further complication is that 'old style' (of the sort mine would originally have been) and 'new style' are both available so one has to choose what sort one would like if one was born before a certain date- I went for old style when they finally allowed us to do that sort of thing in 2004-5 after the passage of the GRA for no better reason than it states 'girl' rather than 'female' and I sorta liked that :o)

I'd relied upon a forgery up to then- naughty, criminal Chiara :oZ

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

Btw 'Commonwealth of Pennsylvania' amuses me as apart from being a Civil War historian (ours, not yours) I'm also a Quaker :o)

[agent_dani]

There are a few US states (5-7, perhaps?) that officially use that. Virginia is another.

[cmcmck.livejournal.com]

It's a result of our Civil Wars. Remember that Britain was, if only for a few short years, a republic and a Commonwealth then we were insane enough to restore the monarchy :o/