There has been research done lately which strongly suggests that the birth announcements published as images on the Web and handed out as photocopies at Hawaiian libraries were prepared from newspaper microfilm which had been spliced and doctored.
Someone somewhere (I am sure it's more than one person) has an original copy of the Honolulu Advertiser or the Honolulu Star-Bulletin which is contemporary with the time frame of the alleged birth announcement.
Only a look at that original fragile, yellowing newsprint will tell you the real story.
Funny thing about newspapers. They can't be doctored. People also hang onto them for personal and sentimental reasons.
Thecodont, you were nicer than me!
Butterdezillion has a blog wherein she explains everything in connection with the crimes going on in the HI DOH. She may know the url of a blog that has all kinds of info about the birth announcments. They are most certainly faked. For many reasons. And even if they weren’t, they were not at that time sent by the state, since more babies were born than were announced in the papers. So someone called or wrote in to put that announcement in (if it was there at the time, which is very debatable).
So far, no original newspaper has turned up, that anyone knows about. I am sure and certain that if 0thugga’s team had an original paper showing those announcements, we would have seen it.