Date:   Thu, Dec 21, 1995 5:31 AM PDT
From:   A.L.
Subj:   Birth Certificates
To:     Area51www

I think you might want to clarify a point in Issue #32 of the Desert Rat.
A birth certficate is no proof one way or the other of whether or not 
someone was adopted. My sister, 3 years older than I, was adopted. She 
came to our family nearly a year before I was born but was not legally 
adopted until she was 17 and I was 14. Until that time my certified 
birth certicicate stated that I was the first born child of my parents
and my sister's listed her birth parents. After the adoption became legal
we received new copies of our certificates. They now state that my sister
was the first born child and that I was the 2nd child. There is no way to
find out from a birth certificate whether or not an adoption took place 
or if Robert Lazar was born to his last name. Some readers may not be 
aware of this fact.