It might be around somewhere, just hiding! In my family I have such things as 'missing' birth records because someone pretended to be married to someone else, or wasn't quite married yet or, in one notable occasion, gave birth two years after her husband died (baby later took her maiden name and was raised by other family members, hence the confusion). Other times the records don't make it easy- I lost my CARTER family until I eventually painstakingly went through the census by hand and found them transcribed as LEOTA (how was I supposed to find that??)
