What do you do if the hall of records loses some records of yours?

Question:thats the place where you could get copies for your birthcertificate what should you do and if you call the hospital where you were born and all they say is to call the Hall of records what should i do cause i call both places and they say that they don't have any info what should i do and i really need it and they have someone with the same exact birthday and same last name but and almost the same name like the end of my name ends with ica and the end of the other is ina what should i do about it

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: thats the place where you could get copies for your birthcertificate what should you do and if you call the hospital where you were born and all they say is to call the Hall of records what should i do cause i call both places and they say that they don't have any info what should i do and i really need it and they have someone with the same exact birthday and same last name but and almost the same name like the end of my name ends with ica and the end of the other is ina what should i do about it

Hospitals complete information for birth certificates, but they do NOT issue them. The normal place is the state vital statistics office (I am assuming you are in the US). I am guessing the problem is not that anyone 'lost' anything... but you are not contacting the right offices.
Be aware.. with id theft as common as it is, states are making more efforts to insure that the wrong persons don't get your records.
http://www.vitalrec.com/
You can use this site to find the right office for your state.

This is a little strange. Are you calling the state vital statistics office the "Hall of Records"? Assuming you are in the US.

But beyond that, I would strongly suspect from what you wrote that you have in fact found your birth certificate. It's just that it doesn't have the same information that you have been living with all your life.

If you just "rejected" this birth certificate without further examination because of the surname spelling, I would really suggest going back and getting them to check it out again. This time, see if the parent's are correct (even with an incorrect surname spelling). They will work with you.

Typos, different spellings, are not that uncommon. The procedure is that after a birth, the mother gives information to a nurse or administrator at the hospital (sometimes they fill in the form themselves). This information is then used to create a "birth certificate". But before it is filed, it is presented to the mother to "validate" that the information is correct. Plenty of opportunity for a typo to occur.

And not all typos are caught. On MY OWN birth certificate, my father's middle name is wrong - it is listed as "Morton" instead of "Norton". My parents and myself have used my birth certificate many times in my life. Nobody ever noticed. But it was my WIFE who caught this mistake - when I was about 35 years old.

It is also possible, especially if your mother was an immigrant or possibly illiterate, that it could very well be that the spelling was in fact the surname spelling they were using at the time. Especially with immigrants, a change in spelling at times was not uncommon.

Mistakes happen, surnames are slightly (or sometimes significantly) modified especially in the immigrant community.

I would really suggest going back and having them pull that birth certificate and then check ALL the information on it. If the only "problem" is a single letter or minor misspelling of the surname, but all other information is correct, then it is highly likely that it is your birth certificate.

If you are told that you were born in a given town and the town denies having the records, then go to the County and either the Province or State and see where the record is being kept. No one "loses" records. Most of the time, the circumstances lead to records being filed in a place where someone doesn't think to find them. It's very common, for instance, that a county is holding records, not the town. All records are send to the Secretary of State for indexing and archiving. So there's always a back up of any record, regardless of the country.

On the other hand, if you're telling me they can find a record, but the spelling is wrong, I would have them research it to make sure there isn't a typo. The names of the parents are listed on the document, so pull your mother's birth certificate and have it compared to the record of the "-ina" name. They won't let YOU see the other record unless it is you, but they will look for themselves. If it is a typo, then a copy of your father's birth certificate and a simple correction form are all you would need to correct an error on the certificate.