10/27 Update: The Honolulu Sunday Advertiser requires proof, via official state-issued birth certificate before printing a birth announcement. See here ("IMPORTANT: You must attach a photocopy of your baby s official state-issued birth certificate; we cannot print your announcement without it."). We are awaiting written confirmation, but have received verbal confirmation that the practice in 1961 was to report on births based on Health Bureau Statistics only. Again not good enough. Show me something in writing from (microfilm) the newspapers back in 1961 not from some obscure blogger who claims that he got "verbal confirmation." And I doubt the news people who put birth announcements in their newspapers were not concerned of using their birth section as an official Hawaiian birth count.
"And I doubt the news people who put birth announcements in their newspapers were not concerned of using their birth section as an official Hawaiian birth count. "
Again not good enough. Show me something in writing from (microfilm) the newspapers back in 1961 not from some obscure blogger who claims that he got "verbal confirmation." And I doubt the news people who put birth announcements in their newspapers were not concerned of using their birth section as an official Hawaiian birth count. You may doubt it, but there is no evidence to support your doubts.
All the available evidence indicates that birth announcements were sourced from the dept. of health. There is no evidence to indicate otherwise.
Does that make the Obama birth announcements (both of them), by themselves, proof beyond reasonable doubt that he was born in Hawaii?
No, but it's only one piece of evidence. Once you combine this with all the other available evidence, there is no room for reasonable doubt he was born in Hawaii.
Especially since there is zero evidence that he was born anywhere else.