>>>vital records are much simpler and in Hawaii’s case appear to have been digitized long ago.
I think they are still new to the digitalization. Hawaii mistakeningly forwarded a database of marijuana users to the local paper back in June.
Which is why I doubt they have all their archives transferred to digital format. That is usually done last, once the current patient files are up and running.
“I doubt they have all their archives transferred to digital format.”
I’m not claiming every field in every birth certificate has been digitized, but their process for generating COLBs clearly is drawing from a digitized database, as opposed to having a clerk pull an original, signed certificate from a file, and either photocopy or transcribe the info in order to fill requests for COLBs etc., which I assume was the approach used decades ago. So if anyone searches for a particular name, certificate number and/or especially if they print a copy, “the system” I would think would have some means of keeping track of this.