“I don’t know about Hawaii, but PA keeps the certificates on some kind of microfilm/microfiche or whatever.’
IIRC, I saw a copy, online, of an Hawaiian statute that says that all birth certificates are to be on microfilm and in a vault.
It would be easy to test.
Anyone born there in that time frame could order a copy of their REAL birth certificate.
There is also a copy of the BC in the county clerk’s office in Honolulu, Honolulu County, Hawaii. Back in the 80’s there was a federal grant to put county records on microfilm. A clerk would take the record book, place it on the microfilm copy machine and it would snap the picture. After X amount of pages, the final product is the microfilm. The county would have the exact information, though hand written and typed as the health department. If there was a mysterious fire, the information would not have been lost forever. Granted, at this point in time, you would be a fool to trust microfilm or digital. Heck, I wouldn’t believe the delivery doctor himself. But there are hospital records, county records, the doctor’s records, and then there’s that original BC Ayers, um, Hussein found at granny’s apartment.