That’s not how an electronic database index works. For critical data, such as vital statistics records, corrections to original data are usually made in the form of additional records. The purpose of that is having the ability to produce a chronological history of changes to a record. For example, with an adoption, the original electronic database entry for the birth certificate is not deleted and the originally issued piece of paper is not destroyed from the archives.
The index data that Okubo released was from an electronic database. It provided the names of the columns from the table that she selected when she queried the database and the sort order she specified to display the results.
Someone suggested that the Hawaii DoH may consider receipts for copies of birth certificates as vital records. Maybe so, but the index data for receipts would be stored in a receipts table not in the birth index table.
“That’s not how an electronic database index works.”
None of this is clear from what I have read and researched.
If you can direct me to your source I would very much appreciate it.
Thanks!