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Have you ever checked to see how Polk collected information? It was anything but scientifically or accurate. Sometimes they hired college students or housewives part time
sometimes they did mass mailing to all residents. They made their money by selling small ads or highliged names Those were accurate but information on names in the neighborhood may have come from phone calls or interviewing your neighbors. My parents have unusually names and always have been called they’re middle names. It was a running joke in our house to see the name of the people who resided at our house. Although we never moved the names frequently changed

Person on phone or neighbor says Ann. Employee writes Ann - Anne Annie or Anna. The choice was theirs. No nefarious act just sloppy work by Polk employee

YES!

Occam’s razor.

So we’re left with two and not three....

How to explain the entry in Seattle ‘61 and the entry in Honolulu ‘61?

She moved and polk canvasser hadn’t gotten the word?

Lots of times the phone book will still list people/businesses at the old address....

September is the publishing date per post upthread, and probably july/august sometime is the cutoff date...

And all that still leaves you with the question, who was she, this Ann or Anna? I’ve already made it clear that when Maraniss interviewed the daughter of the Pratt family who shared the house with the Dunhams, she couldn’t remember any Dunham daughter with a baby. He was careful the way he wrote that, granted. He didn’t come right out and say she couldn’t remember the Dunhams had a daughter.
But the suggestion that the Dunham’s daughter was living in that house and she was listed as Ann S Obama in 1961 at the same time as Anna Obama was listed in the Seattle directory really should make you wonder, no matter how slavishly you want to follow the myth of ‘Dreams’.

Why do questions frighten you to that extent? You have no qualms about suggesting that Madelyn was somehow involved in any number of nefarious activities.

Have you ever once posted a link or a source that might shine a light on your theories? (Other than your Vanity Post?)What would it prove if Madelyn is shown to have inherited shares or income from her father? Just how true is that tax return in which zero shows an inheritance? Another scan that’s only visible on the WWW...and he might just turn out to have been their adopted son after all, and not related genetically.

Any attempt to put a final stamp on this saga achieves nothing, it just stifles the debate. It’s QUESTIONS that get you somewhere, not asserting you have all the answers.

If numerous indications point in the direction of there being more than one woman and their id’s were blended to create the myth, you’ll only find them by looking in the cracks, where the mistakes were made, the blending was far from seamless.

Now you need to bring someone forward other than Abercrombie who has gone to ground on the subject, who can confirm without any doubt remaining, that they saw Stanley Ann Dunham and the kenyan student with a baby anywhere, or even just saw HER in Hawaii in 1961 or 1962...

And that leads you straight to why the birth certificate turns out to have severeal layers, and why it’s probably a combination of data that relates to a birth that took place much earlier, and the date and number of the little girl who only lived for one day.