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If you live in California, try applying for a US passport and tell them that you should not have to show your long form birth certificate (as is required in California) because people generations ago didn’t have birth certificates and yet they could still get passports.

I applied for a passport in California using my Illinois birth certificate, a short form that looks pretty much exactly like the Hawaii short form, with no more or less information on it. The guy at the passport office didn't question it. What isn't acceptable is a document that California issues called a Certified Abstract of Birth, because it lists the place the certificate was issued as the place of birth.You can find the information about what the State Dept accepts and doesn't accept here.

I applied for a passport in California using my Illinois birth certificate, a short form that looks pretty much exactly like the Hawaii short form, with no more or less information on it. The guy at the passport office didn’t question it. What isn’t acceptable is a document that California issues called a Certified Abstract of Birth, because it lists the place the certificate was issued as the place of birth.You can find the information about what the State Dept accepts and doesn’t accept here.

I got my new US Passport a month ago. I live in San Diego. The state of California had ZERO input on granting me a passport, it is a federal government issue not a state issue.
I have ONLY a VERY short form New York state Certificate of Birth. My original birth certificate was issued by the hospital that I was born in and it was then registered with the state of New York. It was destroyed in a house fire 28 years ago and I’ve used the short form for every legal purpose since: mortgage applications, Social Security and Passports/Driver’s Licenses.

So you don’t have a California birth certificate? You instead used your Illinois birth certificate to obtain a US passport. Obviously, it’s a California short form BC that is not acceptable for passport purposes. You couldn’t figure that out on your own? You had to attempt to correct me on something that you should’ve figured out yourself, huh?