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.
When titling cars, each title clerk is given a set of tag numbers to work from. And yes, the vehicle didn’t get a tag # until all of the paperwork was completed. However, there are multiple clerks titling cars. One clear might get 10000 - 10025 and another clerk might get 10026 - 10050.
You don’t seem to understand how absolutely manual processing government records of any kind was in 1961.
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As is clear the dates “Filed On” fall on three different days. I don’t think that the DOH did them on a single day. The Dr. who did the delivery would have been responsible for signing the forms for the birth he/she attended. So unless all three bables were delivered by the same Dr. having all the forms pile up onto one desk, out of order, and “Filed” on different days seems too big a strech.
Take my BC information for example. Mine was signed by the MD on the 13th of August, it got to the DOH the next day and THAT day the 14th, is when if was filed and given a number on the 14th. So it is plausable that a document could get signed the day before it was filed in the DOH. Give it a little more room, say it got to the DOH late in the day on the 14th, maybe it would not have gotten filed till the 15th, but that would have been 8 days after my birth so thats unlikely in my case, and indeed didn’t happen, it was filed on the 14th.
So, the Nordyke Cert gets SIGNED on the 11th, and is filed on the 11th. So we know that a doc. can get signed the day before, and the day of and be filed. This means that Obama’s was signed the day before the Filed Date or the day of the filing date. By CIRCUMSTANCE, because of the DATE on the documents, Obama’s (if Legit) HAS to have a lower number than Nordyke. It was filed three days before Nordyke’s was even signed be the delivering doctor and filed with the state.
It DOESN’T. Its AFTER Nordyke.
The only way I can see that as possible is if the delivering doctor was the same, and held onto all of the forms until the 11th of August, and sent them in all at once, and Obama’s Filed on date was changed to match the signature date of the attending Physician who delivered him. That makes no sense however, because the 11th would have been inside the window for the 7 day filing requirement. Why is the 8th listed? Simplest answer is because that is the actual date it was filed... unless it is a forgery.
I find it very interesting to note this however, The Dunham’s and the Nordyke’s KNEW each other. Those twin girls and Barry went to Punahoe together.
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2008/Dec/22/ln/hawaii812220320.html