But to do that, you need to analyze the data you have to figure out what the ultimate facts are. Here, the timeline is one of the significant considerations and I think points us in a direction.
If I had sufficient resources to do so, I would look at the airline records in December, 1960, and January, 1961 to see if I could see who flew and when. I doubt records remain available but I would check the National Airlines in Kenya, Egypt, and perhaps British Overseas.
I would also look for marriage records in Kenya in the area where Obama Sr. and his family lived and in the principal British administrative locations there.
I also want to know what the birth records look like but I believe someone else has already beaten us there and hope we will have access to them in the US next week or the week following.
Wasn’t that communist Frank Davis (?) very friendly with the Dunhams? Wonder what the FBI has in its files?
The Brits did that about the time King James died with the result that all the early records of the Virginia colony ended up in London in a fire. They did it again in 1676/77 when the independent proprietorships, et al, in America were turned into Crown Colonies. The Brits also snuck their records out of New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Charleston during the Revolution. In 1814 they tried to burn whatever remaind of them by burning Washington DC. Later on when the border between the US and Canada was "set in stone" the Brits took everything, including land survey records, from all the parts South of today's border that they had to give up. This really screwed people living in Western New York. To do a perfect land title search you have to finish the job up in Ottowa (if you're lucky).
I really don't think they changed their act in 300 years!