@CStamp @persagen PS: I concur that birth certificates should be able to be amended easily in any given jurisdiction.Yet it is also important to recognise that birth certificates have nothing to do with certifying a birth: they are certified *extracts* from the larger record of birth (that includes things such as birth weight, gestational age, time of birth, etc etc etc).I am unaware of jurisdictions that will amend the actual birth record (and such details are more the purvue of public health researchers). The amendments apply only to the birth certificate. When amending the certificate, the record of birth has additional 'events' attached. This means that the full record of birth still contains any errors or misassignments/misspellings/etc made at the time, but any future certified extracts (aka 'the birth certificate') will show only the amended version, not the original record.
