[butterdezillion]

The DOH manually stamps the birth certificates they are given. There are no pre-numbered piles. It doesn’t equate with what you’re saying about tags where each clerk has their own pile of tags.

You could say that clerk #1 gets to stamp certs #1-100 and clerk #2 gets to stamp certs #101-200. But the range that one clerk uses would have to be pretty large to account for 3 days’ difference. The difference between the Factcheck number and the Nordyke number is 3.

It doesn’t make sense.

[BuckeyeTexan]

Everything was manual in 1961 which is what makes it totally unbelievable that you expect everything to be in sequential order by date. It’s not like they had a central computer database in 1961 with data entry terminals at each clerk’s desk.

And they also likely wouldn’t get up and walk over to obtain a certificate number from some central office location after each and every record. Each clerk was likely given a set of certificate numbers that she could use to stamp the BC. They could even have been assigned their own book of certificate numbers so they didn’t have to obtain a new set so often.

I think you’re operating on assumptions that can’t be assured as totally accurate given the timeframe and manual processing methods that were used back then.

Two August 1961 birth certificates does not a pattern make.

[EnderWiggins]

"The DOH manually stamps the birth certificates they are given. There are no pre-numbered piles. It doesn’t equate with what you’re saying about tags where each clerk has their own pile of tags."

There you go again, making stuff up. Okubo certainly says nothing like that in what you've published here. I hope you're paying attention to Buckeye Texan because (based on my information) he had got it almost exactly right.