I have a hard time with the birth announcements in two Honolulu papers. They were not put in by the families.
When O was born, the vital records office gathered information on births, deaths, marriages and divorces from hospitals, funeral homes and courts. Then, each week, the paper printed that information. 9 days after O was born, an announcement to that effect was printed in the paper. That information had to come from a Honolulu hospital or it would not have made it into the column.
Then there should be no reason not to release the birth certificate.
Do you have a source for this? That only birth announcements allowed were from the hospital?
I’m 63. The day I was born was August 5, 1945. Within a week my paternal grandmother had a notice in the newspaper in her town in Tennessee declaring my birth ... in Washington DC.