Fine. Now why is that old typewriter being used on the modern security paper with the green basketweave? Do they make transparencies and then print it on modern paper? If so, why is it in a bound volume? Do they do that with every bc?
Questions, questions! :)
1. Birth certificate typed by bored hospital worker with a weak pinky as shown by the sloppy shift key usage. :-)
2. Birth certificate accepted by city/county/island/state registrar (locally it is by the county, but Hawaii is a small state so I don't know who does the actual work) who stamp and sign it.
3. After a pile are received they are bound into an official book for storage.
4. Either at time of binding or later they are microfilmed for easier access. Microfilms are both smaller and can be easily duplicated rather than having to go back to the book and make another copy. (My current birth certificate came from a microfilm.)
5. Sometime later old records are pulled out and computerized for the short form records.
6. After much political pressure old microfilm is pulled from storage, printed on modern security paper and sent to Obama.
7. White House staff scan birth certificate (adding unsharp masking to create haloing around type and pixelation), create PDF file and distribute it.
I don't know if the paper copy still exists or if the microfilm becomes the official copy. I also don't know if they even have the film or if that has been digitized for even easier backup and storage.