It is a novelty birth certificate with a Dr.'s signature and feet prints. And when I say novelty I mean novelty (very whimsical), something you might frame and put on a wall from the early 70's. Additionally when I went to enroll in the Marines when I was 20 they called her while I was processing and demanded to know who she was, and proceeded to tell her that she didn't exist. (This is when we found out that everything her mother had told her was B.S.)