My mother's birth

When mother applied for her Social Security card in 1936, she stated her name was Harriet Anne Kobusch and she was born in Bloomingdale, Illinois on December 1, 1916.

When she applied for a U.S. Passport in 1976, she did not have a birth certificate. I remember her saying the courthouse burned down and all records were lost. Today, I unsuccessfully tried to verify her claim. It is not true. Neither Cook County nor Du Page County has a record of her birth. Probably, she was born at home on the Kobusch farm in Bloomingdale and the birth was not registered.

To prove her birth, she obtained information about her baptism from St. Gregory the Great. It stated her middle name as Anna and her birth date as December 1, 1915 and baptism date as February 27, 1916.  Anna would make sense since Anna Flies Junius was her grandmother.

Her Social Security card states Harriet Anne Grenier, but her passports state Harriet Anna Grenier.