with all of the attention being paid to Barack Obama's birth certificate, I have a confession to make. I was born into a family that legally and technically engages in incest
to find out more about this dark family secret, look over the link
Okay, so it's not a dark family secret. In fact, as long as I can remember, it's been a family joke, to be referenced every christmas and thanksgiving. There is a typo on my mother's birth certificate. According to the legal record, my mother's parents were siblings
My Grandfather and my Grandmother come from large families. Gramps has 7 brothers and 4 sisters. grams has 5 brothers and two sisters. the typo on my mother's birth certificate arises from the fact that my grandfather has a sister who shares the same first name as my Grandmother
so on the part of the birth certificate where the parents are listed, my grandfather is listed as "Joe Smith". and where it says "MOTHER'S MAIDEN NAME", my Grandmother is listed as "Mary Smith". My Grandmother's MAIDEN NAME is Mary Jones
so technically, and legally, my Grandmother isn't my Grandmother
does that mean I gotta move to Arkansas and learn to play the banjo, or what
so do we really want to use birth certificates as the final word on Barack Obama's citizenship, or my mother's paternity
humans make mistakes, ya know ...