Don't know where i was born?

I do not have a birth certificate. I filed the forms and paid $36 to vital statistics in texas. My mother has passed but i called my father and he said i was born in beaumont tx. after 8 weeks vital stat. informed me that they have no record of my birth. i have a ss card but without an id i cannot get records from the SSA to find out where i was born. I cant get id without birth cert. i can't get a job without an id. so i'm 18 yrs old on my own with no income. i need help!! anything you can think of i will try.

Don't know where i was born?
This is the conundrum in america these days. Without this piece of paper you can't get another. Another agency wants that other piece of paper.... it becomes endless. A lot of this depends on what money you have.





Talk to your Dad and find out the specific place you were born. Even the doctor who attended. Unless you were born against a rock in the desert there is a record of your birth. You need to get off waiting for responses.... you need to spend serious phone time until you get someone who can help you.





Have you ever had a state ID? A visit to the local police station would help either way. They can do a record check and produce a document that says you do have a SSN. There is a printout that you can get from Social Security that does not require ID. Or if you keep at it phone wise eventually you will find someone who would tell you what you need to do. Think about it in the way as if you were trying to prove that you are a legal american.





If you really wanted to get to it go to whatever courthouse and apply for a voter registration card. Usually there are old ladies who know every politician that would help. Call whatever local TV staion is near you. Why would they help? Well there is all sorts of people because of the new anti-terror laws who are scrambling for birth certificates and such. It is a good story or issue.... especially regarding the illegal alien thing.





But there is another thing and I did this once upon a time when I lost everything. My mother filled out a form for the Passport Agency saying that she was my mother and certified (sounds odd) that she had known me for 5 years. They issued me a passport and all was done after that.





First place to go though.... police station. Think about if you commited a crime. They could find out all that you need to know in a day. They will help because if you have your father's birth certificate, your parents marriage certificate or whatever it could be as easy as going up in front of a judge.





Sorry I went all over the place but there are so many things you can do..... I went through this. Email me if you wish and maybe I could help. Either way good luck.
Reply:Texas is notorious for charging for public records searches and retrieval, but some states will allow you to search their public records - including birth records (but without disclosing personal information like date of birth) - for free online. Check out every state you remember living in, and ask your dad where all you have lived since you were born.





But where your parents lived might not be the answer. Call the hospitals and birth centers in Beaumont (there aren't but a few), 'cause there will be birth records there. Is it possible that you were born at home, in the backseat of your parents' car, at a non-medical birth center (i.e., you were delivered by a midwife), or somewhere else other than an "official" medical facility?





Beaumont is only a few miles from the Louisiana state line - any chance you were born there? Were either of your parents in the military? Any chance you were born overseas, or on a military base? If not, make sure something crazy didn't happen, like you were born while your parents were on vacation in Mexico.





No luck there, try checking genealogy and records-search websites (ancestry.com or gov-records.com are just a couple). Some such sites will let you do limited searches for free. Check for yourself first, but you may need to check your parents (to find out where they were living when you were born).





If you can't find what you're looking for, pay for a more detailed genealogy or records search. It doesn't cost that much more than what you already paid to the State of Texas.
Reply:same thing happened to my sister! she ended up having to go to the hospital to get proof of her birth there. so i would go to the hospital in the town that your dad said u were born in and try to find out more.
Reply:Call grandma.





Maybe you don't exist. Maybe you are a space alien, and so you just apppeared here one day, and your ma raised you as a human child.





Call SocSec. If you have a card, they have an application or something on file.





Google yourself.