IMPORTANT CERTIFICATES OF BAPTISM. Share full article. May 24, 1886. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from May 24, 1886, Page 5 Buy Reprints.

I am an illegitimate child and the only proof of filiation that I have is a baptismal certificate. My cousins demanded the presentation of my birth certificate to prove my filiation. According to them ...