We already have evidence the records were not alphabetized in 1961. The Nordyke twins’ certificates are in chronological order, not alphabetical order, and the newspaper announcements are NOT in alphabetical order. As for the latter, newspaper editors don’t make more work than they need, so they aren’t just going to randomize a list of births. If the births were alphabetized by the DOH before the list was provided to the newspapers, the lists would have been alphabetical in the newspaper.
The newspaper announcements were published days after the births. The numbers were put on the certificates at the end of the month after a month’s worth of BCs were collected.
For example, Stig Waidelich was born after the Nordykes but his announcement is in the same paper as Obama’s.
They could have been alphabetized by last name.
Annnn (redacted) – 09945 – August 23rd, Accepted/Filed August 24th
Nordyke, Susan – 10637 – August 5th, Accepted/Filed August 11th
Nordyke, Gretchen – 10638 – August 5th, Accepted/Filed August 11th
Obama, Barack – 10641 – August 4th, Accepted/Filed August 8th
Waidelich, Stig – 10920 – August 5th/Accepted/Filed August 8th
Sunahara, Virginia - 11080 - August 4th, Accepted/Filed August 10th
The first five were born at Kapiolani Hospital, Virgina Sunahara was born at Wahiawa Hospital.