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 of Health in Honolulu - both have said how very run down and out of date the place is.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.
That's been going on since 2008 ~ not before that.
Review what you said ~ they didn't offer to show the repository.
It's possible they only keep the old microfiche, but that's in a deep salt mine in Kansas ~ along with everybody else's old records.
I think you've been pwned by the Hawaii BOH.