That's certainly one way to do it. The Federal Rules of Evidence is pretty flexible on ways to authenticate different documents. If you look at Rule 901, a part

That's certainly one way to do it. The Federal Rules of Evidence is pretty flexible on ways to authenticate different documents. If you look at Rule 901, a party who offers the document as genuine can authenticate it by witness testimony, expert testimony, process (the document could only be obtained via a specific process), etc. See: http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rules.htm http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rules.htm (search for 901).