ALVIN B. RUBIN, Circuit Judge:
The issue is whether the birth certificate of a child born out of wedlock completed by a midwife naming a deceased wage earner as both the father of the child and as the informant who supplied that information constitutes a written acknowledgement of paternity sufficient to entitle the child to social security survivors' benefits. We hold that, without additional evidence tending to prove that the wage earner authorized
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