So far no one has come forward with the information about what "they" did at the Board of Health when the decision was made to permanently digitize their birth records.
Ordinarily source documents like that would be kept a few years "just in case" then burned or turned into cellulose additive for soil conditioning.
Since the first thread on this topic I've suspected most of the folks looking into it have absolutely no idea how advanced data storage and retrieval has become, nor even how advanced it was even back in 1961.
Really good systems are invisible ~ the people using them, inputting data, pulling out reports, working with the system simply never encounter some process that doesn't look familiar. It'll be a key entry, a picture, a printout of some kind ~ even though in reality the system might even have some sort of superfast holographic memory unit somewhere.
Butter and several others looked into what happened to the records after they reached a certain age. But you seem to imply that you know how it was done:
“Since the first thread on this topic I’ve suspected most of the folks looking into it have absolutely no idea how advanced data storage and retrieval has become, nor even how advanced it was even back in 1961. “
Fill us in please.
BTW, I personally know two people that have visited the Dept. of Health in Honolulu - both have said how very run down and out of date the place is.
They are so broke there that they have unpaid furlough days.
In July ‘09, Janice Okubo acting as spokesperson for the Dept. of Health stated; “We don’t destroy vital records, that’s our whole job, to maintain and retain vital records.”
Original records are rarely destroyed even after being put on microfilm, or digitally copied. HI has not confirmed that the originals have indeed been destroyed - not that I have heard. Butter may know something different.
Want a quick peek inside the DOH?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCyfCHTD0Ps
You don’t see much of it, but you can get a sense that it’s not a nice, modern updated place at all. This is only a tiny piece of the whole film - one day I’ll put a bit more up if anyone wants to see it.
The notice on one clerks window states they don’t take credit or debit cards. OMG!! They don’t even have that capability.
Hawaii has stated they have the original birth certificates and kept them when they went digital..try and keep up...
They all scan. Before that it was micro fiche. Simple. But it was a photo of an original.
So somewhere there is an actual hard copy original copy BC that was produced on the day the person was born. The Nordyke twins are the only ones on this planet who were born around the same time Obama was?