[Cobra64]

African is not a race! In 1961, wouldn't Negro or Negroid have been used to describe his Father's race instead of African?

Good point. Find a few hundred birth cetificates of blacks/negroes/negoid from Honolulu and see if they all read "African."

[plangent]

Also, Look at the Decosta version (above) for her birth in 1930. The certificate says “STATE” of Hawaii. NOT!

Does the registrar not provide ACTUAL certified copies, or just ginned up versions on current blank stock, purporting to be the original???

Lots of stink here!

[CHEE]

The daily unit report required by the U.S. Army used the term Negroid as a race in 1961. I signed off on many as 1st Sgt.