Sorry to say I have not read all these posts, so forgive me if this issue has been brought up:
Looking at the “Certification of Live Birth” the mother’s “race” is stated as “Caucasian” while the father’s “race” is stated as “African”. What would a caucasian born in, say, South Africa state as their “race”: “African” and since when is “African: a “race”. To my knowledge, there are THREE basic “races”: Negroid, Caucasian and Mongoloid.
Freepers?
Vital Statistics System — Most of the States in the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program are still revising their birth and death records to conform to the 1997 standards on race and ethnicity. During the transition to full implementation of the 1997 standards, vital statistics data will continue to be presented for the four major race groups, white, black or African American, American Indian or Alaska Native, and Asian or Pacific Islander, in accordance with 1977 standards.For some reason the NCHS definitions are now all removed,except for Google's cache.Birth File—Information about the race and Hispanic ethnicity of the mother and father are provided by the mother at the time of birth and recorded on the birth certificate and fetal death record. Since 1980, birth rates, birth characteristics, and fetal death rates for live-born infants and fetal deaths are presented according to race of mother. Before 1980 data were tabulated by race of newborn and fetus, taking into account the race of both parents. If the parents were of different races and one parent was white, the child was classified according to the race of the other parent. When neither parent was white, the child was classified according to father’s race, with one exception: if either parent was Hawaiian, the child was classified Hawaiian. Before 1964, if race was unknown, the birth was classified as white. Beginning in 1964 unknown race was classified according to information on the previous birth record.
