The birth announcements printed in the papers were not the type sent in by relatives.
In 1961, the Honolulu papers went to the Vital Records Department and collected the births, deaths, marriages and divorces that had taken place the prior week. The VR office got this info from hospitals, courts, funerals homes, etc. The papers then printed the information on Sundays.
This gives me serious pause. How did the announcements get in the paper unless O had been born in a Honolulu hospital within the past 10 or so days?
I got this from a blog that has been exploring the issue of O’s citizenship: http://texasdarlin.wordpress.com/2008/07/23/obama-was-likely-born-in-hawaii/
Hey Pa mom.
I do know that foreign certificates could be filed in Hawaii at the time of Obama’s birth...that would make sense with the announcement.
Didn’t Obamas sister have the same kind of birth announcement printed in the local paper even though she was not born there?
If not, I might be getting mixed frequencies from my tinfoil hat.
His Kenyan Grandma Sarah Obam said that his mother flew back to the states with him immediately, if she did and registered him, thus receiving the COLB then those records would be with the courts.