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i L.i. DETROIT FREE PRESSSUNDAY, JUNE 19, 1983 3C Editor: John Dunphy iOLI OEl GIipsuS I Keep your lUWUi birth certificate close at hand BIG A wayward W-2 i if 1 Sunday Bazaar Please come to my rescue. I have Vf been trying for the last several weeks to find out who I would contact to get a booth or stand at Eastern Market on the weekend. I know that since I don't raise my product that I can't sell on the produce side, but someone told me I could get a space on the other side by paying rent. I haven't been able to find anyone who can give me an answer.

Can you find out who I can get information from so that I can sell my candy? J.L., St. Clair Shores A How about the Eastern Market Development Action Line put you in touch with the group and you got the information you needed. The corporation is starting a new Sunday Bazaar that would be perfect for you. The market will rent spaces for the sale of arts and crafts, antiques and flea market-type items, every Sunday through September, starting July 17. The spaces will rent for $30 a day, from 8 a.m.-4 p.m.

There won't be any farmers' produce available, but the market shops and restaurants will be open. For more information on booth rentals, call Michael Layne at 345-4365, 9-5 8 Ji -Hi k' rK Sit a i own- Qln 1982, 1 worked for Sizes Unlimited in Southf ield. I never received a W-2 statement and haven't been able to file my income taxes yet. I wrote the store's main office in New York about this, but never got a response. Can you help me get my W-2 statement? L.R., Farmington Hills A We contacted the personnel de- partment of Lane Bryant, the parent company of Sizes Unlimited in New York.

An employe said an earnings statement was sent to you, but must have been lost in the mail. She said it's company policy that requests for duplicate copies must be made in writing by the employe and there was no record of any such correspondence from you. If you drop her a line at the address we gave you, she'll send a copy of your W-2 statement in the mail. i It 1 If By ZACHARE BALL Free Press Special Writer You may not realize it, but your birth certificate is probably the most important personal document you can have. You need it to enroll in school as a child, to get working papers as a teenager, and, as an adult, to receive unemployment benefits, welfare and disability benefits.

If you want to get married, you need a birth certificate, and when you retire, you need your birth certificate to start drawing Social Security. Just about the only time you don't need a birth certificate is when you die. But your survivors may need your death certificate to receive widow's benefits, Social Security for your dependents, and proceeds from any insurance coverage you may have. Edward Thomas, director of the Vital Records Division in Detroit's Department of Health, is responsible for all the death and birth records in the city. (His department also has a hand in monitoring disease in the city, issuing permits for disinterments, and keeping track of people who die of communicable diseases.) THE VITAL Records Division issues 36,000 new documents every year and makes 80,000 transactions with the public in that amount of time.

Still, the fact that birth and death records are important doesn't mean people know how to get them, or even know if they have their legitimate birth record. "A lot of people find out what they have is not a birth certificate," Thomas says. Vital records can be complicated, but the following information, according to Thomas, might make it easier to understand: Make sure you have a legitimate birth certificate. If you were born in Detroit, the certificate has a green border and a beige background. It lists your name, birthdate, sex, file date, date issued and a registration number.

A birth certificate from a hospital with your hand prints and footprints may be cute, but it won't get you a marriage license when you need one, or any kind of government assistance. A notification of registration from the hospital that you were born is not a birth certificate. If you were delivered by a midwife, you should check your birth certificate, Thomas said, because, quite often, midwives spelled names out phonetically, rather than with the proper spelling. Whatever name Semi Annual ShoeSale Free Press Photo by JOHN COLLIER Edward Thomas of Vital Records appears on your birth certificate is your legal name. If you have a child who is born at home, make sure the child's birth is registered with the Vital Records Division within the year.

Otherwise, the child will have to get a delayed birth certificate and that will cause problems later in life. "The Department of Social Services and the passport office will demand an explanation of why there is a delayed birth certificate," Thomas says. Your birth record cannot be made public to anyone but you and the government. In the case of adoption, once the adoption is completed, Detroit's Vital Records Division seals the records and an adoptee is asked to notify Lansing. If you were born in Detroit, you can get a copy of your birth certificate by sending Vital Records the following information: your name, your mother's maiden name, your father's name, and the date and place of birth, to Vital Records, Herman Kiefer Hospital, 1 151 Taylor, Detroit 48202.

One copy costs $10, with additional copies $3 each. If you're a senior citizen, the first copy costs $2, with additional copies for $3. Death certificates are public record. One copy costs $10. If you were born in Michigan outside Detroit, send your name, date of birth, mother's maiden name and father's name to the Michigan Department of Health, Vital Records, 3500 N.

Logan, P.O. Box 30035, Lansing 48909. A copy costs $10. If you were born outside Michigan, applications for birth certificates vary from state to state. However, Detroit's Vital Records Division has an application that can be used when applying to other states for a copy of a birth certificate.

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