[Cymraeg]

I can't believe that anyone would pay $100,100.00 (this was the last bid I observed last night) for a pig in a poke. The Kenyan BC has to be certified by the Kenyan local department that is the official keeper of birth records, then it would have to be certified by the Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs and then certified by the Foreign Office in London. How in the Hell would the purchaser be able to authenticate all of the standing on the steps of the Iowa State Capitol.
In my law practice I have had to send American birth and death certificates overseas for Americans inheriting from deceased overseas relatives. I had to obtain a certified copy of the relevant birth or death record, then have it certified by the Secretary of State for the state where to records were kept, then have the State Department in Washington certify the documents. This came back in a blue binder with a purple ribbon rivited to the document and with State Department sealed in red wax. This is the only way overseas courts would accept official records from America. We have the same requirements for overseas documents coming from Kenya. If this birth certificate exists (which I doubt) I am sure that these requirements have not been met.
To the fools who are bidding on this I would be willing to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge for $500,000.00 by quit claim deed.

[Hank Kerchief]

“We have the same requirement ...”

Whose “we?” I have a legal copy of my birth certificate which was accepted by State Department to issue me a passport. If someone took that birth certificate to another country to prove where I was born, it would be proof, whether some bureaucratic “we” accepted it or not.

By the way, the last bid was $1,000,099.01.

Perhaps someone knows something you don’t.

Hank