I'll be honest - I'm 47 years old, consider myself not terribly out of touch with reality and world goings-ons, and have NEVER known of anyone or heard of anyone getting their birth certificate changed after they got married! I mean - it's not really a true record of your birth if it's altered to reflect a name change, is it?
I didn't get it changed and had no problem with the Real ID, or getting a passport or anything else over the past 26 years.
Have I had a totally different experience than everyone else?
I don't believe anyone is speaking of getting birth certificate changed after marriage.
It's just that women need to show...
birth name is Jane Smith
married name is Jane Jones
divorce name is Jane Jones
remarried name is Jane Carter.
and perhaps repeat which means more names and paperwork.
Your SS card, DL, bank statements all say Jane Carter. With Real ID, you need to show each step of the name change. Some of these changes are from 50 years ago when everything was handwritten in books, churches may have closed, who knows maybe court houses burnt down.....some may not even remember dates and such. So next year, are we going to hear stories, I really wanted to do 4 generations at disney but we couldn't find all the paper work for my great grandma so she could fly.