[Ladysforest]

I was a little surprised by what Zullo said - they used the 1960 manual. I should NOT have been surprised, LOL, because it does make sense. The manual in use at the time obama was born would indeed have been the 1960 - any changes to that one would have resulted in the one that I posted. Otherwise it (the 1961 dated manual) would not have been re-issued as a “revised”. I haven’t looked over the 1960 manual to compare between the two.

I kind of assumed that it would be more in the geographical section that any revisions were made. I need to look it over, don’t I?

[4Zoltan]

It sounds to me like what he is saying is that the Hawaii DOH would see a birth certificate that said “African” and then send it back to the hospital to have them change it to “Negro”. And he has examples, but were those parents born in the US?

And why would the NIHS need to tell their coders how to code the parents’ race, if all the DOHs were correcting the BCs to match the Federal tables? We know that Hawaii had their own set of codes, right? How would that figure into it?

[Jeff Winston]

I was a little surprised by what Zullo said - they used the 1960 manual. I should NOT have been surprised, LOL, because it does make sense. The manual in use at the time obama was born would indeed have been the 1960 - any changes to that one would have resulted in the one that I posted. Otherwise it (the 1961 dated manual) would not have been re-issued as a “revised”. I haven’t looked over the 1960 manual to compare between the two.

It would be nice if you could turn up a copy of the 1960 manual.

I'm betting it still doesn't say what they claimed the manual said.

[bluecat6]

The 1960 vs 1961 manual are simple smoke screen. The changes YTY are probably very minimal.

Any port in a storm. And it’s stormin’.