{"id":692067,"date":"2010-03-15T23:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=8093"},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:27:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:27:53","slug":"does-avery-anderson-really-exist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/692067","title":{"rendered":"Does Avery Anderson Really Exist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>Avery Anderson will turn 2 in August. With any luck, she will have a Social Security number by then.<\/p>\n<p>The toddler&#8217;s slow crawl through a thicket of red tape began last year when her father, Clay Anderson, went to file the family&#8217;s 2008 income taxes. To obtain a $1,000 child tax credit, he needed Avery&#8217;s Social Security number. He quickly realized she didn&#8217;t have one.<\/p>\n<p>He called the Social Security office, where he was told he could swing by and pick up a copy of Avery&#8217;s card. When he arrived at the office, he discovered the card was not issued for his daughter.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was another girl born the same day with the same name in Oklahoma,&#8221; Anderson said.<\/p>\n<p>He was told to come back with a copy of his daughter&#8217;s birth certificate.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, she didn&#8217;t have one of those, either.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/problemsolver\/ct-biz-0311-problem-anderson-20100311,0,3626232.column\">Read the full article<\/a> about Avery Anderson, and her parents&#8217; quest for documents in the March 11, 2010 <em>Chicago Tribune<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avery Anderson will turn 2 in August. With any luck, she will have a Social Security number by then. The toddler&#8217;s slow crawl through a thicket of red tape began last year when her father, Clay Anderson, went to file the family&#8217;s 2008 income taxes. To obtain a $1,000 child tax credit, he needed Avery&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":790,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-692067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2U2n","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/790"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793361,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692067\/revisions\/793361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}