Right. A friend's family decided to treat their matriarch (age 92) to a vacation in Italy. She doesn't have a birth certificate. But she does have the family Bible which lists the births and weddings of the family going back 3 generations before her. The went--in person--to the Philadelphia Passport agency because they didn't want to risk leaving such a valuable part of family history with some postal or court clerk. The Bible and the letter of "No record" of a birth certificate served as proof of citizenship.