The reason we now have the short form birth certificate is to make our lives easier.

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The release of the long-form birth certificate must have done the trick.

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With these forms of ownership, your beneficiaries would simply need to provide a death certificate and a valid form of ID to take ownership of the property.

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Then after you die, your beneficiaries present a death certificate to the financial institution and fill out a form.

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You fill out a form and you send in a death certificate.

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An investigation by TurkTrust revealed that in August 2011 it twice accidentally issued the wrong type of security credential, a form of identification known as an intermediate certificate.

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The guarantee of identity is in the form of a digital passport known as a certificate.

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Under Proposition 200 approved in 2004, Arizona officials require an Arizona driver's license issued after 1996, a U.S. birth certificate, a passport or other similar document, or the state will reject the federal registration application form.

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The giver fills out a form -- and for a fee the company e-mails the recipient a virtual gift certificate.

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