The theory that the Nordyke twins should have certificate numbers higher than Obama based upon dates is a non-starter. The premise assumes that:
I worked as a title clerk at an automobile dealership during college. The Sales and Finance staff brought up stacks of paperwork every couple of days for vehicles that needed to be titled. Paperwork never went through their offices in an orderly manner. There was always something missing or incomplete: missing signatures, incomplete odometer statements, etc.
I didn’t process paperwork by the date a vehicle was sold/purchased. I processed stacks of paperwork from the top of the stack to the bottom of the stack setting aside any paperwork for which I still needed something. That meant that vehicles were assigned tag numbers according to when I received the paperwork, their order in the current stack I was processing, and when I was finally able to complete the titlework. The date of sale had little correlation with the assigned tag number.
The paperwork for two separate vehicles purchased on the same day and sold by two different salesmen weren’t automatically processed and titled on the same day or even the same week.
84 posted on Tuesday, February 02, 2010 3:00:05 PM by BuckeyeTexan (Integrity, Honesty, Character, & Loyalty still matter)
Giving a file number is the mark that the record has been accepted. Whatever processing had to be done on it is done by that point.
How could a BC that completed the process and received its number on August 8th be given a later number than a BC that completed its process and received a number on August 11th?
Piles have nothing to do with it. The number is the state registrar’s confirmation that the record is considered valid. Giving a number is the last step of the process.
I would imagine that for most birth certificates, filled out at the hospital, “processing” would amount to a quick glance and then stamping with the number stamp. Maybe bgill can comment on that, although what happened at the hospital or county level would be a bit different than at the state registrar’s office.
The pattern that seems to have been true for Kapiolani - where Obama now says he was born (as opposed to the earlier claim that it was at Queens) - is that the BC’s were collected for a week and then on Friday the doctors signed the certificates, the (deputized) local registrar at the hospital signed the certificates, and then all that week’s certificates were transmitted to the state DOH office - as required to be done weekly by Section 8 of “Public Health Regulations”, Chapter 8. The certificates were signed, delivered, and numbered on Fridays, for Kapiolani.
Doing it weekly makes sense since the requirement was that births be reported within 7 days. It would have made an orderly process.