How Do I Get a Birth Certificate If I’ve Never Had One Before?

7/7/2018

For most people, a birth certificate is something they take for granted. They don’t have to think about how to get a new birth certificate, because they’ve had one all along. Of course, if that is not the case in your life, you may have a number of questions. What is a birth certificate? Why is it important to have one? Where can I get one?

Unfortunately, the questions may outnumber the answers at this point. With this blog post, we’d like to show you that this is not an issue which needs to haunt you for the rest of your life. By taking the steps necessary to receive a birth certificate, you can put this matter behind you and move forward confidently.

The Basics

As the name would indicate, a birth certificate is a record which documents the birth of a person. The value of a birth certificate is far-reaching, including providing an individual with a legal identity, enabling them to be enrolled in school, making it possible to obtain a passport, and much more. Simply put, life is going to be rather limited if you do not possess a valid birth certificate which confirms your identity and age.

How Does This Happen?

It might seem like the receipt of a birth certificate is automatic when a child is born, but that is not necessarily the case. The lack of a birth certificate is relatively common in certain situations, such as when a child is born at home, or born in a certain community (such as an Amish community). If the proper paperwork is not completed and submitted, the child may continue to grow without ever receiving this important document. Of course, it won’t be until later on in life that the individual begins to realize how difficult it is to work through a number of different situations without a birth certificate.

Taking Action

If you find yourself in the position of being an adult without a birth certificate, there are steps you can take to rectify the problem. Most importantly, you are going to need to be in possession of some important details regarding your birth. In most cases, this is not going to be a problem. You’ll need to know your date of birth, your gender at birth, and your full name. Also, the names of your parents are likely to be required, and there may be other identity-related questions to answer before you can officially be issued a document. Once you have gathered all your documentation, you’ll want to contact the vital records office in the state you were born to get started.

This is the kind of project which is easy to put off, but don’t make that mistake. If you have never possessed an official birth certificate, get started right away on completing the steps necessary to receive one. Being born without a birth certificate is more common than you might think, and it doesn’t need to stand in your way any longer.

While FastBirthCertificates.com can’t register you for a birth certificate for the first time, we can point you in the direction of your state’s vital records office. And if you ever need to get an official copy of your new birth certificate, you can always quickly and conveniently order it online through us.

49 Comments

Tuesday Ann Tharrett

9/8/2018 03:22:40 pm

My father is 76 born in Alabama he never even had a birth certificate he lost he identification and I just need help on how to get one made for him. I have been doing this for two years now. Someone please help!!

sub

3/27/2021 03:12:13 pm

birth certificates are bad. people who use them target each other according to bloodlines and an "altar" country that's associated to a person's birth.

seriously, if you're a natural born citizen, you're expected to claim that your citizenship is defined by your bloodline or this altar and that you have no liberty in your own citizenship.

please do not pursue getting a birth certificate and encourage others to stop supporting them or using them for any reason.

Laura Hopkins

11/24/2018 08:33:41 am

I’m in the same boat Ms. Tharrett, my father in law is 81 and was delivered by a midwalife in 1937. There is no record of his birth and we have tried for years to get him a birth certificate. They keep saying “sorry we don’t know what to tell you”. How can No one know how to remedy this problem. Funny how they found a way to get him a social security #. Gosh forbid he not pay in to the government! If anyone has help for us I would be so grateful. 850-293-8183

Carolyn

8/20/2019 04:38:05 pm

Get a copy of the census showing his name, date of birth and parents. I know this works because I'm 61, never had a birth certificate and went to school, got drivers license, ss card and married. Check every ten years from time of birth, my was when I was 3

Juanita

2/21/2020 06:52:49 pm

In addition to the census report, get a social security numident printout, early school records, 10 year driver's record and a voter registration application.

Edward Lee Hinton link

11/13/2020 12:57:12 pm

Birth Certificate needed .To make one. Went everywhere. No one can find anything in his name.

11/13/2020 01:16:05 pm

I had. Never one birthday is. 3/10/1959.MY Mother name is Goldie Mae Hinton. Father is Elliott Hinton from Johnson County. Mother from Wake.

Tammy Bennett

1/27/2019 08:51:10 pm

My Mother is 75 years old and never had a birth certificate, she was delivered in the house in FT. Gains GA. We don't know where to start in getting her a birth certificate. She has social security card, how did that happen, I don't understand. Now it's hard for her to gain a licence with all these rules.And she also would like to cruise but can't without her birth certificate. PLEASE HELP 786-306-6352

Lourdes Ramos

1/8/2020 09:44:27 am

I am 57 years old, college graduate, married, divorced, owned two businesses and living in California. I was born in Brooklyn NY according to a Baptism Certificate. However the certificate is no longer valid for updating important records. I need to update my passport and driver's license to the new ID DMV requirements. I submitted a request for a search of my BC, but the Vital Records in NY can not locate one. I was born at home and my parents at the time did not follow through with the birth certificate paperwork. Can anyone provide some insight. What is the first step in getting it resolved? Thank you

juanita

2/21/2020 06:59:51 pm

Contact the Vital Records in state in which you were born and be guided by the instructions. Also, I believe you can use a passport to obtain the new Real ID Driver's License.

2/21/2020 06:55:07 pm

Get a passport

Milan Tett

8/20/2020 12:02:41 pm

You need a birth certificate to obtain a passport

Nathan M. Wells

2/28/2019 08:52:08 pm

I am 19 and i have never had a birth certificate. i want to get on with my life, join the U.S. navy and be a diver. thats never going to happen like this, and i fear one day i will be living in the streets. all that has to happen is i lose the family members who i am supported by, then i'm done. My family has been trying for years to obtain a birth certificate for me, the vital records offices have given us the runaround for ages and the lawyer we hired never accomplished anything in these several years. if anyone can help then please send me an email at nathanmichaelwells@gmail.com

2/21/2020 07:01:02 pm

I know Vital Records will give you the runaround - stay focus.

danny Lee smith link

3/12/2019 07:26:45 pm

My mom and dad said I was born on a truck driving trip an never had a birth certificate help me please

Michelle mcgriff

3/30/2019 10:53:42 am

I never had a BC I sent off for one vital records say they couldn't find me in the system they sent me a paper that look like a BC saying prima face my driver license has expired an I need my BC to renew my license please help me

Danny lee Smith

4/2/2019 03:34:20 pm

I have never had a BC an was all ways told I was born in a motel in hobert OK 11/01/1960 I need I now at the age of 58 to renew my license never needed it before now can you help me

really?

6/24/2019 09:07:02 pm

these comments are actually sad lmao

Celeste Ward-Tamiggi

8/14/2019 12:48:43 pm

Never had a birth certificate. Was born at home and certificate never issued.

Luke Hawkings

8/25/2019 08:39:59 pm

I’m 27 and have never had a birth certificate. I live in Alabama. Can anyone tell me who to contact first?

Patrick Day

9/19/2019 03:02:13 pm

My brother has never had a BC. At 76 we don't know what to do. There is no one alive except me and I was 2 when he was born. Please help

2/21/2020 06:56:35 pm

Get a passport - and swear to an affidavit of birth - that will start things going forward.

Jerry

10/1/2019 04:02:30 pm

I never had a birth certificate made. I had a social security card but it got burned up in a house that burned down. I’m a college graduate so I have school records and transcripts. Please point me in the right direction🙏🏾

Nya

9/10/2020 07:34:39 am

Hey, did you get your birth certificate yet?

Cash Miller

10/21/2019 03:08:23 pm

Iam 18 years of age and never had a birth certificate or a security number I have tried to get for 2 years now I would really appreciate the help if someone could help me .

9/10/2020 07:36:17 am

Hey, do still need any advice?

Adamary

4/7/2021 09:34:40 pm

I do

4/9/2021 08:20:53 pm

advice: don't get a birth certificate and tell others to stop supporting them as well. there are too many birth certificate holders and not enough natural born citizens.

Donald E Jones

12/23/2019 06:02:41 pm

Didn't find out until I was in my mid fifties that my parents were not my biological parents. To my dismay when I tried to obtain a birth certificate I was informed that there was no record of my birth. I later discovered that the name I have used all my life is not the name I was born with and since I cannot prove that NY will not issue me a copy of that birth certificate. I am unable to obtain a passport and I will not be able to obtain a digital ID or driver's license that will be required October 2020.

2/21/2020 07:03:01 pm

If you were adopted - go the the adoption agency to start the search for your information.

Charles

12/31/2019 10:25:48 am

I work for a Law Firm in Texas and during this career I have seen some interesting situations such as these.
However most of the people that are dealing with these issues are people that have been incarcerated for a number of years especially the elderly.
See into the Offender Reintegration Process (back into society), in your state. It may or may not work due to every state having a different processing system. There is no standard way to accomplish this, hence the difficulty in doing it.
Although there are people that have been successful but, instead of going on and not looking back they should at the least be giving a hand up to the rest by simply explaining what they've done.
Good Luck and Blessing towards your efforts and future.

12/31/2019 10:35:24 am

This is not in any way legal advice nor is it any way legal representation or an insinuation thereof. If anything is take from this it is only basic knowledgeable information found anywhere through simple research steps online. I am not liable for any efforts tried towards any processes pertaining to gaining a Birth certificate, ID, License, SSC or any other form of identification or credentials. Proceed at your own actions and advised decisions.
No attorney or any professional can give you expert advice unless hired/retained to do so in the legal, Medical or any other professional field.
In the same note beware of "PROFESSIONALS" that will only take your case for financial gains in mind.

12/31/2019 10:52:11 am

SEE:
Sovereign citizen.
This is where you are all at. It is a trap the government has designed. Not that you asked to be sovereign or intentionally acquired the position, maybe some did. It's I am sure not what you consider yourselves but, it is where you are stuck.
They have set the system up for them to only gain on there end and more or less punish on your end. If you or your parent's did not follow within the lines of there rules to process you then you are stuck. They will only recognize you enough to take from you, ie. Taxes, Payments, Registration (limited), vital "head count" etc...
UNLESS you find a way out of the Sovereign rabbit hole.
Some people actually prefer that kind of life and try to go off grid in striving to do so only to find more problems than what it's worth.
There are even Hollywood movies portraying the problem such as THE TERMINAL with Tom Hanks.
It's funny how the anti government knuckle heads will tell you all about how to do it but can't tell you how to gain it back.
That's because it's difficult to in the name of U.S. Security for the Homeland.

12/31/2019 11:18:22 am

If there is any records of your parents you may get relief/help through that avenue and if still alive get a DNA sample from them and yourself for future proof. You must be willing to try every route possible. Look into gaining citizenship through the Embassy or other way. Since there is no law explaining or pertains to this issue you must create your own path.
EXAMPLE: An attorney is more or less there to represent you in front of the COURTS or to file the proper paperwork if you do not know what to do.
HOWEVER, in the U.S. one can file there own legal work with the Courts and can also represent themselves.
That said, just like a Law Firm we sometimes have to figure out our own way and file that with the courts. This is how new laws that are formed through the courts come about.
If you have the patients and driven motivation then go for it. Create your own case and blaze your own path. make the Courts and Government listen to your pleadings. Make it possible for yourself and those that you love.
Hypothetically speaking: a divorce will general start you out as low as $2,000 to $5,000 and can go as high as $30,000 and much much more depending on the circumstances.
When you file your own divorce it will usually cost you simply the filing fees unless proven indigent or on disability. Filing fees usually run between $250 to $500 and go as high as $900, that's it.
See the difference ?
You can CREATE your own case. Forms online are only STANDARD forms, as long as they have within it the elements that they must hold within it your arguments are limitless.
It's how we as the people win rights for ourselves.
So be a FREEDOM fighter for you and your's.

Edward owens

1/8/2020 08:19:22 pm

My father needs a birth certificate thank you

Tina Evans

4/29/2020 11:46:44 am

I’m eating a birth certificate I have never had one I need one for identification purposes I do have Social Security card and old drivers license I need a birth certificate to go to

4/29/2020 12:47:14 pm

To Tina Evans: We are in the same boat. I've spoken to several attorneys and got one to help me, but the shutdown has delayed everything. I would love to talk to you about my findings and maybe we can work together to solve our problem. Its' not easy and its' going to take a lot of footwork on your part before an attorney takes charge of it. Let's talk.

Izaaq

6/21/2020 11:30:20 pm

Lourdes, my brother and I would love to talk with you about this, too! Can you please contact me at yitzi0117@gmail.com

India

9/7/2020 01:16:09 pm

I really need help to never saw a birth certificate or SSN it’s very stressful if anyone can help email me @indiaclarke1996@gmail.com

hugo biaza link

7/6/2020 09:02:29 am

i was born by a mid-wife 75 yrs. ago and i never had a Birth Certificate. I want to begin receiving my Social Security benefits that i paid into for over 50 yrs.

RENE BUFFALINO

8/14/2020 11:37:26 am

How does one go about getting their birth certificate if they don't actually know in which state they were born? Many details of my spouse's birth have always been kept secret and we don't know how to get the information now (the relatives who had this information are long deceased).

Angelia

8/25/2020 09:44:29 am

I was born in California, but I don’t know the names of my parents. My situation is completely different and difficult, I’ve never had as much as a social security card or an ID, and I’m 27 years old. How do I go about getting what I need to go to school and get a job? Any information would help. Thank you.

Robert lawrence crabbs

9/23/2020 05:50:04 pm

I was told when I was young I was born in flint mich contacted them 3 times they said I wasnt born their.i am now 67 years old what do I do.

Chantel link

10/13/2020 08:29:21 am

I had a baby when i was younger 13 and ran into after having my boy /baby at 25 26 and never got a birth certificate or know time and day 4157350758 is it a way i can get one two different kinds im only parent of my boy they took for nothing but my baby is return ed i haven't got him back they ask what im having at 12 and said we taking i had at 24 25 they ask were you rape can we accuse your baby because we dont know your boy is yours completely give yoy meds try to kill my boy have same sex trying to have sex and my baby here now ao i cant ask any aervice for help. But still think to share ask ....

Courtney Gibbons

12/14/2020 11:38:35 am

I had my daughter on 11/03/13 she was born 15 weeks premature, and the hospital never came around to get the paperwork for her birth certificate. Although I have 3 other children and know the procedure on how the hospital does this. Because I handed in the paperwork late to the hospital I never got a proper birth certificate in the mail. It just has no name as her first name and my last name as her last. I tried to correct that at the office of vital records when she was 11 months old but crossed something out so it once again was left blank. Since then she has started school and we have medical coverage, but her medical card and school records have 2 different last names, her fathers is on her medical card and medical records from her doctor mine is on her school records. No one seems to point me in the right direction to fix this so I'm stuck on what to do now. My baby needs her identity. But I don't know where to turn for this help. The office of vital records is of no help either. I'm stumped

virgil w Ragan

2/28/2021 11:54:54 pm

go to vital records and get a amended birth cedtficate like vhanging ghe name just adding ine called amended birth records

3/27/2021 03:25:25 pm

your babies identity is their own. you may influence any choices as the individual grows up, but their citizenship is their choice. all people are created with a right to liberty and birth certificate "citizens" have no right to alienate natural born citizens' freedom of choice according to their birth.

please do not obtain a birth certificate for the baby and stop using them yourself. tell others of what is being done to people through birth certificates.

protect your child from birth discrimination and do not force them to do things according to their birth.

virgil reagan 46

2/28/2021 11:51:59 pm

46yrs old.bogher parents are deceased. Was told i was born in hawaii all my life after there passing recently i needed my birth certificate so contacted hawaii no records found ? so contacted all 50 states no record found then find out my grandparents were not my grandparents and. my mother past is shaddy full lies decite my father never knew. No adoption papers. social security number was issued 4 years after birth in different state which bas no record my birth my school transcripts was xerox cooy not even a certified copy no realitive to ask non My supposibly father comes to find out he was adopted but he ran away when he was 15 his adkoted parents not seen him since ir heard from him ghey fhiught he was dead i told them at there age of 79 he just died but what worse found out he not my fathsr i was told he was all my kife he could not have children becuase he had some health issue my brother just found out he has different father also dna match for him there.no dna on my oarents they was both cremated i have no id card n lost everything contacted many kawyer attonry general office vital record i live in texas ive talked to police yes been prison because nowni had expired id cant get new one now im on probation required me have curent one but cant get one bo way to prove to the dmv whom i am but mug shot send me back to prison but i told police i dint know whom i am or parents where either moms past i it fhere cant find anything like her last was made up contact FBI was told fhey have no clue where start or what to do i could been missing child from the 70 mug shot good enough for prison but not snough to tellpolice i maybe missing child from the 70. because family i ghought was mine is not called 30 attonerys for help talked state reps hawaii cant go there no money or id to fly spent $7000 on trying find whom but whats funny is state doesnt even have my name right on anythinv have L as middle not it is W ddivers licnsse fot ghrew hughschool no records are snot helpful because birth certificatd in ghose files is fake. city where ny mom lived when she was in her early 20s cinintatti ohio i was born 74. couole years before i was born ghere was man whom had same exact name died couome years before my birth he lived same street as my mom before he died knew eachother but no he not father hr was in his late 70 my mom was 22 lived. next door mystery how did he die he was hit by a car. no will help no laywdr no state citizenshio says unknow police want to lock my up for violation not getting a id that not even whom i maybe fbi cant help me local policecannt mom past was lie she moved so much inky thing i remeber as child i lived in a orohange for 4 years dont remeber who got how grandparents i thought was but was not i dont remember my mom as child nit till i was 6 this woman cane into my kife says sshe was my mom but no adootion no sealed adption dont remeber orphange what city and state i remeber bieng pick up side if school at orphange was told to shhhhh be quite that i was told she was my mom by her then till now before fhe oroahnge nothing she gold me she put in fhere at birth she came get me back missing and expliited childrem cant help to far back need help cant get married to woman who i loved since 3 grade at 10 years old cant fly cant get bank account i cant get drivers license pleaded to two judges one dallas one in garland tx they cant help ghey bith said same thing contact vital records i dis fhey have no clue where start or begin lawyers dont know either no proof my mom excisted there death recird no proof she was my mom at all no pictures of me as child or baby nit till i was about 6 blonde hair blue eyes 46 i was told born in 74 either from ohio or ky , hawaii texas ,north corlina, colorado ,georgia .these are few state she said inn her stories of travel she lived. so told police got wrong guy im not whom they think i commeted a crime got trouble now telling them nope not me look uo my birth records call the state where i was birn in ask they fhey just look uo onnthefe files which not linked to vital records they going by what i told them or on my driver licnse guess what since they not call hawaii so take them paper from hawaii showing them resukt stating i was not birn there so now what they said dint care lady officer i have it on video recird on my phone man without family tracable history with country with no backing. i would bléed die for my country USA im 100% countrified horse riden cowtippen son a of B wrangler wearer american white as america dont have color we all bleed same so i have my goverments back if ever in a tike of need feed my neighbor and my enemy but the dang goverment ir state does nit have mine stated all over famius kast words. TO PROTECT AND TO SERVE serve this serve me help me or to sloggen down say to protect and ???????? not serve. sorry mad but need lrive whom i am did everything paoersand judges said sorry bri f proof of my mom dad something pictu

3/27/2021 03:19:41 pm

that you speak the language & fight for this country is all that matters. all people are created with a right to liberty.

please encourage people to stop using birth certificates if you are serious about the fight. birth certificates users adhere to the belief that all people are not created equal and with a right to liberty. they promote entitlement according to bloodlines and birthrights.

citizenship is born naturally through our actions, what language we speak, and what culture we choose to represent. natural born citizens are attempting to stand against birth certificate "citizens," but many people now require bloodline/birthright certification in order to interact with them.

please notify people about the problem with birth certificates and request that they stop using them and any form of ID or service that requires such a certificate.

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