I could get a birth notice for Barack Obama printed in a Honolulu newspaper today. It would take a phone call and a few dollars.
The birth announcements printed in the papers were not the type sent in by relatives.
In 1961, the Honolulu papers went to the Vital Records Department and collected the births, deaths, marriages and divorces that had taken place the prior week. The VR office got this info from hospitals, courts, funerals homes, etc. The papers then printed the information on Sundays.
This gives me serious pause. How did the announcements get in the paper unless O had been born in a Honolulu hospital within the past 10 or so days?
I got this from a blog that has been exploring the issue of O’s citizenship: http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/obama-was-likely-born-in-hawaii/