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Vital Records Digitization & Fraud Guard glossary
Terms used in Vital Records Digitization & Fraud Guard and its documentation.
Applies to Vital Records Digitization & Fraud Guard as it works today. Moraph updates the platform continuously, and this page is reviewed when it changes.
Terms used in Vital Records Digitization & Fraud Guard and its documentation.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Certified copy | A certificate printed on security paper from the official record, issued to an eligible requester. |
| Eligibility rules | Your state's rules on who may receive a certified copy, applied to every request. |
| Held for review | The stage a request enters when a fraud indicator applies, until a fraud verifier decides it. |
| Fraud indicator | A signal, such as a deceased registrant or repeat requests, that sends a request for review. It does not establish that fraud occurred. |
| Death matching | Linking a birth record to a matching death record so requests for the deceased person's birth certificate are held. |
| Digitization batch | A book, folder or microfilm reel tracked from scanning through indexing and review to release. |
| Second-pass review | A check by a second person of a sample of indexed records against the images before a batch is released. |
| Security paper | Numbered paper with physical security features, used only for certificates and reconciled every day. |
| Verification code | A code on each issued certificate that relying agencies can check. |
| EVVE | Electronic Verification of Vital Events, a NAPHSIS service through which participating jurisdictions share issuance and death-flag data. |
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