Originally Posted by
cordelli
The short form birth certificates have become pretty much useless unless you are signing up a kid for little league, I think many places have started requiring the full form now, with the parents names, etc.
Many if not most "short form" birth certificates-- they are commonly called "birth certificate abstracts" as that's what they are-- contain all the information required. A quick google image search shows that both the NY and HI "short form" birth certificates contain all this information. I can personally vouch for Cook County and the State of Illinois-- abstracts from them have this information and always have. This 'new' rule provides no indication at all that State is no longer accepting certified birth abstracts that have all of the required information, or that they plan not to accept them in the future.