“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.
Still is here. The certified copy of mine I got last month (or was it the month before?) is a photocopy/print of the microfilm more-or-less centered on the modern high security paper form.
>>>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
HI doesn’t issue digital birth certificates. That was verified by Polarik, Techdude, Dr. Mitchell Langbert, and Israel Inside.