What about BIGLOOK who is quite familiar with the area? Also the birth announcement clipping appeared in both “The Honolulu Advertiser” (Sunday, August 13,1961 edition) and “The Honolulu Star-Bulletin” but the date it appeared is unknown.(For some reason August 16,1961 sticks in my mind) Both appeared on Texas Darling’s blog, with one submitted by a PUMA with the first name of Laurie who was there to do a documentary on Obama while the second one was posted by someone using the screen name of koa. Please note that both papers have a web edition but “The Star- Bulletin” was bought by Canadian interests in 1996 and the only archives online are from that date. It is unknown if they retained archives prior to the take-over, which is something I questioned earlier because of the fact that Obama himself mentioned the article of his father’s interview after graduation, which appeared in “The Honolulu Star-Bulletin” and which he supposedly found along with his birth certificate and some medical records when he was a teen. Going to the website of “The Honolulu Advertiser” they actually accessed the archive library and reprinted portions of the interviews with Sr. which can be found here but “The Star-Bulletin” does not!
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080829/NEWS05/808290416/0/BACKISSUES
A newspaper story on the day he left, June 22, said Obama planned a several-weeks grand tour of Mainland universities before he arrived at Harvard to study economics on a graduate faculty fellowship. The story did not mention that he had a wife and an infant son.
Many years later, Barack Jr., then in high school, found a clipping of the article in a family stash of birth certificates and old vaccination forms. Why wasn't his name there, or his mother's? He wondered, he later wrote, "whether the omission caused a fight between my parents."
there are letters written by acquaintances of obama snr and photographs from around that 1960-1961 period on this website:
Never once is Stanley Ann nor her son mentioned. It's almost as if the boy and his mother never featured in obama snr's life at all.
Notice, in the article, obama refers to a family stash of birth certificates...
Ok obama, if that 'family stash' included your own birth certificate, we would like to see it up on the fightthesmears website.
Another source that would be in some ways be better is the micro fiche at a major big city library. The Hawaii papers are (or were) in fiche at the Seattle Public Library and in the Library in Portland; I assume they will be in the San Francisco Library.
What you can do with that is confirm that the Birth Announcement in Vital Statistics was in fact published on the date represented (mid August 1961).
As I have said several times, my own assumption is that the birth announcements and the Vital Statistics records are true--some one of the principals in that time frame was focused on the citizenship issue; maybe grandmother Dunham; maybe Stanley Ann; maybe her father.
And there is no way to tell what the Health Department (from whom the newspaper articles were purportedly obtained) would have accepted as a basis for recording the birth.
Hawaii has an affidavit of birth statute--you can envisage that mother or grandmother might have done up an affidavit of home birth; maybe one of them had a doctor friend who practiced at one of the credible local hospitals who would just slip in the printed form reporting a birth based on the affidavit into the hospital's daily report to the Health Department. It got to the newspapers.
All of that is perfectly consistent with what I believe happened. At the school break after the first term in the fall of 1960, Stanley Ann was pregnant; Barack Sr. wanted to marry her but knew that the marriage would be criminal bigamy in Hawaii because he already had one wife in Kenya; so the two of them got on an airplane during school break--went to Kenya; and got married on Feb. 2, 1961.
Barack Sr. got on a return flight and went back to class at the University. Stanley Ann was estranged from her family but got along well with Barack's family in Kenya and she stayed there, intending to return to Hawaii for the birth.
July 1961 rolls around but she is too pregnant to get on the airplane--BOAC refuses to allow her to board the plane because of company policy. Barack Jr. is born in Kenya at the end of July or early August (probably the August 4, 1961 date is correct).
Immediately after the birth (before she had learned to change diapers according to Susan Blake's testimony), Stanley Ann gets on the British Overseas Airlines flight (the routes for August, 1961 are in the published schedules which are posted on this site) in Nairobi; through Glaskow Scotland to Vancouver BC; to Seattle where her next appearance in early August, 1961 is with Susan Blake; on to Hawaii to file the birth information.