[Danae]

Birth announcements are totally irrelevant. I could call a paper in Missouri and give them a birth announcement that was totally fake, pay the fee and they would print it. It is not as if that is some sort of legal document. I am sure that if there was any sort of scandal in Grandma’s eyes she would want to give as much legitimacy as she could at the time. Certainly Birth announcements were common then. I did not do an announcement in any papers when either of my children were born. It is not an automatic or mandatory thing. Its the choice of the person essentially buying the space to print it.

[Mount Athos]

Birth announcements are totally irrelevant. I could call a paper in Missouri and give them a birth announcement that was totally fake, pay the fee and they would print it. It is not as if that is some sort of legal document.

Alright, but see if you can form an alternate theory about why Barry is hiding his long form birth certificate.

Start with the premise that he was born in hawaii, and see if you can come up with another reason why he is hiding it.

[Technical Editor]

Birth announcements are totally irrelevant. I could call a paper in Missouri and give them a birth announcement that was totally fake, pay the fee and they would print it. It is not as if that is some sort of legal document. I am sure that if there was any sort of scandal in Grandma’s eyes she would want to give as much legitimacy as she could at the time. Certainly Birth announcements were common then. I did not do an announcement in any papers when either of my children were born. It is not an automatic or mandatory thing. Its the choice of the person essentially buying the space to print it. In 1961, the hospitals reported birth to Vital Statistics and they sent a list to the newspapers weekly. The newspapers have been spoken with in Hawaii about this.