Baptismal Record in Place of Birth Certificate for FBR (1919 NYC Birth)
Helping my mom with her FBR. I have been waiting since January for NYC to send my grandmother's birth certificate. I did find a typo in the Birth Record Index - she is listed as Quonn instead of Quinn. I pointed that out to NYC and gave them the document number in June, it's still in their "search" phase two months later.
I did have a gut instinct that maybe my grandmother was baptized in the same church my great-grandparents were married in. I wrote to the Archdiocese and within a month they sent me back an official certified baptism records (showing parents's names!) and as well the church record of her marriage to my grandfather, even though it was at a different church.
I also have a copy of the 1920 US Census showing my grandmother as a 9 month old within her family's home. And my chain of emails with NYC Dept of Health showing that they're "still looking."
I have everything to draw a very clear line from my great-grandmother down to my mother. Is it worth sending now, or will they insist on the actual birth certificate?
TLDR: Will an official baptismal record work instead of a birth certificate since we've been trying to get the bc for 8 months?