[Fred Nerks]

thanks, she said she found the original birth record, properly numbered, half typed and half handwritten, and signed by the doctor who delivered Obama...

Doesn't sound like this one, does it?

[edge919]

No. The only parts that are handwritten are the signatures and the dates next to them, which would always be handwritten and wouldn’t provide a strong reason to point that out. And with Gov. Abercrombie saying the record was “written down” ... one would expect to see other fields on the document be handwritten. Too bad nobody in the press ever followed up for an explanation from either of those two.

[4Zoltan]

“Doesn’t sound like this one, does it?”

This is not the entire Standard Certificate of Live Birth that was used in 1961. There is additional information to the left of the demographic information. If you zoom in on the left side of the document where the graphic lines bend and look to the left of box 7d, you can just make out a printed “?”. This is most likely medical data about the child and the mother. This information is not released to the parents.

In 1961, they were using the 1956 version of the Standard Certificate of Live Birth. That version had three additional questions required by the Federal government and any additional questions that the State of Hawaii might require.

Here is the procedure as outlined by Dr. Charles Bennett (he signed both Nordyke sister’s BCs)in a 1955 Hawaii Medical Journal article,

1.) Nurse or clerk fills out the BC.
2.) Mother signs the BC.
3.) Doctor fills in medical information on the BC.
4.) Doctor signs the BC.
5.) BC is sent to the DOH.

http://www.wnd.com/files/CHARLESBENNETT.pdf

If the boxes to the left of the demographic information was handwritten by the doctor, the entire BC might appear to be half written and half typed.