[danamco]

He can’t use a number which already exists for someone else and if his number is way out of line with the other babies born at that time, well many Freepers and/or “fraud experts” will catch it.

Father's race in 1961, termed..... "AFRICAN" vs. you know.......com on, plueeze???

[Chief Engineer]

Having worked on this for months (such is what happens when one suffers from a shattered right upper arm) I discovered that the use of African for race was quite plausible but only in Hawaii! Here is what I found on Vital Statistics:

Race or national origin

The race or national origin shown in a tabulation is that of the newborn
child. Classification of the child’s race or national origin for statistical
purposes is based on the race or national origin of the parents. The
categories are “White,” “Black,” “American Indian,” “Chinese,” “Japanese,”
“Hawaiian,” “Filipino,” “Other Asian or Pacific Islander,” and “Other” races.
Before 1978 the category “Other Asian or Pacific Islander” was not identified
separately but included with “Other” races. The separation of this category
allows identification of the category “Asian or Pacific Islander” by combining
the new category “Other Asian or Pacific Islander” with Chinese, Japanese,
Hawaiian, and Filipino.
If the parents are of different races or national origins, the following
rules are used to assign race or national origin to the newborn child. When
only one parent is white, the child is assigned the other parent’s race or
national origin.
at this link:
http://www.nber.org/lbid/1987/docs/clsnat87.txt

but something more interesting found at the same link was this:
In
tabulations by place of residence, births occurring to U.S. citizens and to
resident aliens are allocated to the usual place of residence of the mother
in the United States as reported on the birth certificate.