Birth Announcement

[Keith Alan]

but isnt there another document? the Certificate of live birth (is what walter says SOLB?) and the Birth Certificate but I seem to recall that someone somewhere mentioned another document prior to both of those that was just basic details and it was used to make the COLB but not an official document, more like just notes taken at the time?

it may just be a regional thing or it could also just be me over recalling something on the subject and nothing at all.

My understanding is, the State takes a survey and prepares a matrix, from which statements of live birth and birth certificates are prepared.

[Keith Alan]

My understanding is, the State takes a survey and prepares a matrix, from which statements of live birth and birth certificates are prepared.

I found this particularly... bothersome:

(b) Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary,
information collected pursuant to subparagraph (A) of paragraph (2)
of subdivision (a) shall not under any circumstances be disclosed or
available to anyone, except for both of the following:
(1) The State Department of Public Health and the Department of
Child Support Services for demographic and statistical analysis. The
Department of Child Support Services shall keep information received
pursuant to this subdivision confidential in accordance with Section
17212 of the Family Code.
(2) The federal government, without any personal identifying
information, for demographic and statistical analysis.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/di...=102425-102475