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haele

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8. I already keep that in the safe. Along with all my account links.

Reply to lastlib (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 9, 2025, 05:10 PM

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Also, it's probably good to have not just one but several certified copies of your birth certificate and current marriage certificate, guardianship papers, ect...because whenever there's a legal or contract situation a lot of employers, federal and state organizations who need to handle those certified document won't always just scan it into an electronic database and return your document to you.

I've had to replace several birth and marriage certificates, my DD 214, and my DD 2656 over the past 20 years. And my mom needed to have 7 copies of her marriage certificate as well as the same amount of death certificates when my dad passed 14 years ago.

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