Do you know what hospital you were born in?

[DigDog]

yep, i have of the knowledge.

 

[MongGrel]

I do, have known forever. But that is because of military though.

Hospital should be common sense... just about everyone knows where they were born. Seems like it would come up. Then its on the birth certificate too, which is used for a form of ID, at least starting out.

Mine just says Richmond for the Borough on my The City of New York birth certificate, with no hospital. And it's not a copy.

So you're wrong again I guess, by just making a blanket statement in general per usual.

 

[Mike64]

Mine just says Richmond for the Borough on my The City of New York birth certificate, with no hospital. And it's not a copy.

Yeah, except that it was definitely after 1980, I don't remember when NYC got all the vital statistics data computerized, but after that, they stopped handing out microfiche prints of the actual original certificates in the ordinary course (and I'm not sure such a thing even exists for original certificates filed after they moved to the computer-based system.) The "new" certificates are really cheesy, and just list "legally relevant" info like date and city/county of birth, name given at birth, and parents' name. No time of birth, filing physician's name, or actual "place of birth," among whatever other info the old ones used to show. You can request a "long form" version, but since I never got around to doing that, I don't even exactly what's included on that or if it's just still a fiche print of the original, if such a thing exists in the first place...

 

[MongGrel]

Yeah, except that it was definitely after 1980, I don't remember when NYC got all the vital statistics data computerized, but after that, they stopped handing out microfiche prints of the actual original certificates in the ordinary course (and I'm not sure such a thing even exists for original certificates filed after they moved to the computer-based system.) The "new" certificates are really cheesy, and just list "legally relevant" info like date and city/county of birth, name given at birth, and parents' name. No time of birth, filing physician's name, or actual "place of birth," among whatever other info the old ones used to show. You can request a "long form" version, but since I never got around to doing that, I don't even know if that's still a fiche print or just a longer computer-printed form...

Mine is from 1961, actually.

 

[JMapleton]

How can you not know which hospital you were born in???

 

[MongGrel]

How can you not know which hospital you were born in???

It's pretty easy if you were like 3 months old and the were moved halfway across the country and were raised elsewhere after that.

I have a pretty good idea which one it was in my case though, wasn't really a thing I have worried about over time.

What difference does it make one way or another ?

I know which one my brother was born in as he was raised locally there, but does it really matter much ?

 

[shortylickens]

How can you not know which hospital you were born in???

The human brain doesn't keep memories until around 3 years of age.

You would know that if you werent a bastard.

 

[Mike64]

Mine is from 1961, actually.

My original cert was filed in '64, so also under the same (original) system. But is the "certificate" you have now a print-from-fiche (looks like an "old-fashioned", gray-ish/sepia-ish-tone photocopy of what was most likely a handwritten form filled out by the filing physician) or one of the "newer" mostly light-green computer-type "forms" with the personal info added after the fact?

Since the originals were, as far as I know, all filed centrally no matter which borough/county one was born in, I can't imagine the form of the "copies" varied from place to place...

 

[MongGrel]

My original cert was filed in '64, so also under the same (original) system. But is the "certificate" you have now a print-from-fiche (looks like an "old-fashioned", gray-ish/sepia-ish tone photocopy) or one of the "newer" mostly light-green computer-type "forms" with the personal info added after the fact?

I thought it was the original, but after looking at it it does look like a dot matrix print on old computer paper light green copy.

My bad, had really not looked at it that closely til you mentioned that.

I doubt they had dot matrix printers in 1961 at the hospital, as they weren't around till 68.

 

[Mike64]

I thought it was the original, but after looking at it it does look like a dot matrix print on old paper computer paper green copy.

My bad, had really not looked at it that closely til you mentioned that.

I doubt they had dot matrix printers in 1961 at the hospital, as they weren't around till 68.

Yours is probably one of the early versions of the "new" certificates; I lost the the one I had that looked like what you've described, too. The most recent one I have looks much nicer (as does the SS card I got sometime in the 90s to replace the one I originally got in the mid-70s.) I guess even government bureaucracies replace their printers at least once in a while.

ETA: I have to say, I think the "new" printed version is totally lame - just another piece of bureaucratic paper versus an actual "copy" of the usually handwritten form filled out by the person who delivered you or came on the scene shortly thereafter (and which also had a lot more circumstantial information.) But then it's probably the sort of thing one misses only if you'd had it in the first place. (And I dare say being slightly weird helps, too.) I suspect today's "originals" are also computer printouts anyway, though perhaps including more information than the copies one gets later without a special request.

 

[oppie1]

Sacred Heart Hospital, Norristown, Pa

me and my sister were born in the same room, same bed, by the same doctor 3 years apart

 

[SunnyD]

Look at this giant phishing thread! I love it!!!!

Considering "What is the name of the hospital you were born at?" is a very common question in the list of security questions for most online accounts.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Yup, I know the hospital, and I was also the last kid born at there, they shut down the OB department a few days after I was born. OB tends to be the first thing to go when a hospital is doing poorly.

 

[IronWing]

Yup, I know the hospital, and I was also the last kid born at there, they shut down the OB department a few days after I was born.

You must have been one ugly baby. :biggrin:

 

[RadiclDreamer]

You must have been one ugly baby. :biggrin:

I've heard that so many times it isnt funny.

In reality i was born in a rural hospital that was hurting financially, they had planned to close their delivery services at the end of the year and I was born at the tail end of december. I just so happened to be the last kid there before the doors shut.

 

[gorcorps]

Look at this giant phishing thread! I love it!!!!

Considering "What is the name of the hospital you were born at?" is a very common question in the list of security questions for most online accounts.

I have never seen a site ask me for what hospital I was born at. City, yes... but never hospital.

Maybe it's one of the options when you can choose which security question to ask, and I've never noticed it, but I have never had to answer this question for any sort of security reason.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Those security questions are retarded anyway, I wish sites would get rid of that crap. I just put a bunch of gibberish in it. Sites have to stop making password recovery so easy. It's up to users to not forget/lose their passwords.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Those security questions are retarded anyway, I wish sites would get rid of that crap. I just put a bunch of gibberish in it. Sites have to stop making password recovery so easy. It's up to users to not forget/lose their passwords.

Thats why i make sure to pick the question that is the absolute hardest for someone to guess, no pet name, mothers maiden name etc, too easy to guess or lookup

 

[Remobz]

The building I was born at used to be a small private hospital owned by a local doctor. The building is now a restaurant but I pass the location almost every week.

 

[who?]

Thats why i make sure to pick the question that is the absolute hardest for someone to guess, no pet name, mothers maiden name etc, too easy to guess or lookup

Instead of using the real one you make something up you just have to remember what you made up.

 

[John Connor]

Post #60.

 

[Leyawiin]

Feather River Hospital in Paradise, California (yes, there's a town called Paradise here).

 

[notposting]

Balboa Hospital (aka Navy Medical Center, San Diego)

 

[Mike64]

Look at this giant phishing thread! I love it!!!!

Considering "What is the name of the hospital you were born at?" is a very common question in the list of security questions for most online accounts.

Are you suggesting that AnandTech's database linking user names to email addresses is so wildly insecure that that could possibly be a realistic concern?

 

[Mike64]

Instead of using the real one you make something up you just have to remember what you made up.

That second bit is what gets me into trouble. Unless I make a (theoretically insecure) easy to find note of it somewhere, I always forget the stuff I make up...

But if anyone who might conceivably try to break into any of my online accounts (my close family members happen to be unlikely candidates for several reasons) ever knew, much less remembers, the name of my first pet - who died almost 45 years ago - I will personally bake them a dozen cookies of their choice and deliver them anywhere in the continental United States. On foot. Barefoot. In the middle of January. And come to think of it, I'll tell them my online banking password too, just because, hell, they'd deserve it for managing to pull that off.:biggrin:

But in any event, being somewhat more than averagely security-conscious, I usually use my mother's first pet's name just in case. (He had a rather long, very unusual-for-an-American-dog name out of Ancient Greek history, for whatever that's worth.) He died more than 80 years ago at this point and by now, all of my maternal grandparents' children have died. (Except possibly one and even if by some unfortunate-for-her chance she's still alive, she has been in a nursing home suffering from extremely advanced Alzheimer's Disease for what would be by now quite a long time.) And I'd be greatly surprised if any of my mother's parents' other grandchildren have remembered the name for decades, assuming they were paying enough attention for it to have sunk in in the first place. In short, I think I'm pretty safe on this one.