Article: Its staff can help you locate your original birth certificate and get it translated, if need be. Like the U.S., many other countries will require you to place your request not with a central agency, but with a specific locale. However, central authorities can often point you in the right direction. As with U.S. birth certificates, you will need as much information as possible and will be required to pay a fee. In many countries, birth certificates and other vital documents began to be collected by government agencies only recently. If you were born before this time, or you are trying to obtain a birth certificate for a relative who was, you will likely need to contact the appropriate church office. This means that you will need to know both denomination and location.

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Contact the embassy or consulate for the country in which you were born. Place a request with the country or city in which you were born. Dig deeper for less recent births.