It is very odd (and frustrating) that so many basic facts about Stanley Ann Dunham and Barack Hussein Obama Sr. - and therefore, Barack II - are seemingly ambiguous according to contemporary documents. This suggests the real possibility that at least some of these documents have been deliberately altered at some point during the intervening years.
...a listing for ANNA OBAMA was discovered in the 1961 1962 Seattle Polk and Reverse Directory.
It would be hard to fathom that the Anna Obama listed in the Seattle directory at that time was a woman other than Stanley Ann Dunham, who was known by other sources to have been in Seattle at that time and to have been caring for a baby. The name "Obama" was virtually unknown in the United States at the time, and still is very rare, so you would have to think that there would be only an infinitesimal chance that there would be two different women in Seattle (and in the area of Seattle in the environs of the U. of Washington campus) at the time with one using the surname Obama and the given name Anna, and the other with middle name Ann later known to have filed for divorce from a man named Obama.
You have a long road ahead of you...and I don’t know if I’m up to it, to go through it all again.
Susan Blake gave a long, somewhat scripted, video interview which has now been cut down to a few seconds, in which she described how Stanley Ann Dunham sent her a postcard to tell her she would be visiting, how she had borrowed a car from a friend of her mother’s on Mercer Island to do so, and how she showed up with an almost newborn, whose diaper she didn’t know how to change. And after telling Susan how in love she was with a black man from Kenya, she left, to go East, (Susan mistakenly said to join her husband in Boston, but the kenyan didn’t leave Hawaii until June 22, 1962)
AND SUSAN NEVER SAW HER AGAIN.
That was of course, before the address for ANNA OBAMA was found.
Both of SAD’s ‘best friends’ from Mercer Island High School, who attended the U of WA never said a word about her attending the U of WA with them, they obviously didn’t know she was there at the same time they were?
The ‘memories’ of visiting with SAD at the Seattle address appeared miraculously after the address in the Polk and Reverse Directory were found.
You make good points. Also, my roommate in college was legally named ‘Ann’. She went through a phase where she asked everyone to call her ‘Anna’. (We complied.) Later she reverted back to Ann. It happens.
"Anna" was Anna Chin, not Stanley Ann Dunhham.