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Amended Illinois certificate of birth for Amberly R. Carter-Mills, 23 May 1985 — described derivative, no image published

State of Illinois, Division of Vital Records · Held by the family; certified copy not yet ordered by the archive

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  • BT-EVD-00388Modern Vital Record — Described, Not Obtained

    An Illinois certificate of birth exists in original and amended form for Amberly R. Carter-Mills and names the mother. The archive has not yet obtained a certified copy, so this record is described rather than cited, and the parent-child link is not upgraded on the strength of a document nobody here has examined.

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    An Illinois certificate of birth exists in original and amended form for Amberly R. Carter-Mills and names the mother. The archive has not yet obtained a certified copy, so this record is described rather than cited, and the parent-child link is not upgraded on the strength of a document nobody here has examined.

    BT-EVD-00388

State of Illinois, Division of Vital Records; Amended Illinois certificate of birth for Amberly R. Carter-Mills, 23 May 1985 — described derivative, no image published; State of Illinois; Held by the family; certified copy not yet ordered by the archive.

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  • Family Tradition

    Is Amberly R. Carter-Mills a child of Magnolia Gordon-Carter?

    Both people are living and both have recorded consent to be named. The link is known directly within the family and is additionally supported by an Illinois birth certificate that this archive describes but does not publish. The founder receives no evidentiary shortcut: the record has not been obtained, and the link is not presented as documented until it has been.

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Amended Illinois certificate of birth for Amberly R. Carter-Mills, 23 May 1985 — described derivative, no image published

BT-SRC-00387
Evidentiary weight 2 of 4. Derivative sourceOriginal image: Citation entered — image review pendingA transcription, abstract or index standing in for a record BEFORE TILL has not yet examined directly.
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State of Illinois, Division of Vital Records
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Held by the family; certified copy not yet ordered by the archive
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Vital Record
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Restricted — living person. RECORD VERIFIED — PUBLIC COPY REDACTED. Document type, issuing body and the relationship it establishes are public. The original image, certificate number, signatures and address are restricted.

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State of Illinois, Division of Vital Records; Amended Illinois certificate of birth for Amberly R. Carter-Mills, 23 May 1985 — described derivative, no image published; Held by the family; certified copy not yet ordered by the archive; State of Illinois.

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Carter-Mills, Amberly R. "Amended Illinois certificate of birth for Amberly R. Carter-Mills, 23 May 1985 — described derivative, no image published." BEFORE TILL: The Living Evidence Archive. Version not yet assigned. Object BT-SRC-00387. Accessed 2026-09-24. /source/BT-SRC-00387.

Attribution: Amberly R. Carter-Mills, Founder, Creator & Descendant Archivist.

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