This is what happened - a friend of mine had her mom up get in touch with her friend, who happens to be an attorney. She suggested that I find some kind of reunion/search service and use the social security number on my non-ID hospital records to try and locate my birthmom. I planned on going ahead with her plan, until she called us back and said that the s.s. # written on my records was probably not my birthmother's actual s.s. #, that it was either assigned to her by the hospital (as a general # for birthmoms) or it was some kind of attempt by NYS (where I was born) to avoid giving me TOO much info. on my records. The # is located on almost every page of my hospital records, and in some places it is blacked out - I can tell because there is a copy (on top of a copy) of what I assume to be my hospital bracelet on several pages (all but one) and on some of the pages it is blacked out, and on some it is not. (I hope that makes sense!) Because it is blacked out in some places, part of me wonders if that is actually her real s.s. #.
My other question is this - there is no way that this # could have been assigned to ME, right? My social security number is not on any of the records they sent, but when I called and requested my records, they identified me using my s.s. # instead of my name, because I did not recieve a name while in the hospital.
I know this is all confusing - I hope someone can make sense of it for me.
