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She was moving to Washington permanently, so it's likely that she had all of her possessions. That being the case I find it highly unlikely that she would have flown, and believe that there is a high probability that she traveled to Washington by ship.

I find it amazing that some people actually believe that the PDF is an authentic copy of a paper document. All you need to do is look at it - try this.

1) Download the PDF directly from the WH - http://whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/rss_viewer/birth-certificate-long-form.pdf

2) Open the PDF, and zoom into box number 4 - that's the box with twin information.

Notice anything? So.... You have a form that was hand drafted back in the 50's or 60's. Then it was filled out, and put into a book. 50 years later it was photocopied, and then scanned into a PDF. And two boxes in that section come out as pixel for pixel exact copies of one another?! Simply impossible, one box was copied and pasted into the document to create another empty box. Why? I have no idea.

Before anyone says something stupid like it's a result of optimization, or OCR, I'll explain the basics of those processes.

OCR works by finding pattern matches to known fonts. When a match is found the image data representing the number/character is removed, and the number/character from the font is added to a text layer. This results in a searchable text layer being created with all the values that were recognized. These numbers/characters all come from he font data, so they will match, so for example every 'A' found will be an exact copy of every other 'A' found. But what's important to remember is that they all come from the font data, so they will all match the font definition - so they will be very sharp and clean. There are many cases of letters and numbers that are exact copies of others on the document, but they are not sharp, they didn't come from an existing font file, and there is no text layer. So they are not the result of OCR.

Optimization works by finding repeating patterns, and replacing them with a pointer to one instance of the data. For example, if a document contains 1000 'A's in a row, in 10 different places, then the document can be optimized and the 1000 'A's are stored once, and in the document they are replaced with simple pointers to the one instance. What is important to remember here is that optimization does not change anything, it finds patterns that are already exact copies, it doesn't change things that are similar into exact copies of each other.

I'd love to see someone try to explain how those two boxes are EXACT copies of each other.

Mixed Raster Content compression is the answer.

Look at this PDF

http://www.rrc.state.tx.us/rules/comments-3-13-TalismanEnergy.PDF

It has letters that are pixel-for-pixel identical. In the second row the name “Smelley, Ronald”, the “e”s and the “l”s are pixel identical.

It’s how the scanning software creates the smaller file size.