When Teresa and Jeff Williams decided to have an unassisted home birth, they had no idea they would be unable to get a birth certificate for their son nearly two years later. Despite sending a litany ...

There's never been a record of Sadie Nelson's birth. Nelson, 67, was born on Aug. 8, 1957, in Sunflower County, Mississippi, to sharecropper parents. A midwife helped her mother deliver her, but died ...