OK, you can zoom in on the BC copy. Looks plenty authentic to me. What we have here is a copy of the birth certificate issued in 1964. The original was made in August 9, 1961. So somebody requested the BC in ‘64.
Look carefully. It's not a birth certificate, but a "Certified Copy of Registration of Birth". Similar to a COLB in the US.
Perhaps for adoption purposes.
January 20, 1964 Motion for Divorce Dunham / Obama
February 17, 1964 is date of Kenyan COLB
Perhaps it was needed for the divorce action?
(Only thinking out loud...no judgement made)
That is about the time Stanley Ann got divorced from BHO Sr. She filed in January of '64, but the divorce was not granted until 20 Mar 1964. Perhaps a copy was needed for the divorce proceedings?
I am not a document expert but I did learn touch typing on an old manual typewriter in 1961 and I did spend thirty years working on offset printing equipment so I have been in a lot of printshops and seen a lot of documents. That document definitely has information typed in on a typewriter, probably a manual typewriter and probably one that was old in 1964. The form itself looks old and may have been printed by letterpress although I wouldn’t want to say for certain by any means.
In short, if this is a fake it is a damn sight better fake than the COLB posted on the internet to prove Hawaiin birth and it is vastly superior to the “fake but accurate” documents that cost Dan Rather his anchor job. If it’s fake it was done by a brilliant forger.
If I had to bet a thousand dollars one way or the other I would say it is genuine.
Maybe for the adoption to Lolo Soetoro, or Madelyn for kindergarten, etc.???