It should be possible to get the birth certificate eventually, though Covid will slow things down. My father died in Thailand without a will, and settling his

It should be possible to get the birth certificate eventually, though Covid will slow things down. My father died in Thailand without a will, and settling his estate involved proving that I was the only person left to inherit. That meant a very long chain of authentication of birth certificates, death certificates, and divorce documents. For example, I ordered my grandmother's death certificate from the city of Chicago, got it authenticated by the Illinois Department of State, got that authenticated by the US Department of State, got that authenticated by the Thai embassy in the US, got that authenticated by the Thai government in Thailand. Repeat for for another dozen documents. I was able to do it all remotely, by mail, but it took more than a year. When it was all done, I went in front of a judge in Pattaya in Thailand. I was worried that some Thai lady would suddenly appear claiming to be his wife (I suppose that happens at least once a week there). But in the end it was anticlimactic.