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Are you referring to this? If so, what don't you understand?

We soon figured out that the deepest and most foolproof ID had a government-issued Social Security card at its heart, and the best source of those were dead-baby birth certificates. I spent impious days over the next several months tramping through rural cemeteries in Iowa and Wisonsin, Illinois and North Dakota, searching for those sad little markers of people born between 1940 and 1950 who had died between 1945 and 1955. The numbers were surprising: two in one graveyard, a cluster of fourteen in another. Those poor souls had typically been issued birth certificates – available to us at any county courthouse for a couple of bucks and a simple form I could copy from a death announcement at the archive of the local paper – but they had never applied for a Social Security card. Collecting those birth certificates became a small industry, and we soon had over a hundred. – Bill Ayers, passage from his book “Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist“