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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.

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.

Right, the birth announcements came from Vital Statistics, not the hospitals. But, BC's could be issued in Hawaii without being born in a hospital, or without being born in the state if a relative filed a BC (IOW, lied). The problem with the birth announcement in the papers at the time of O's alleged birth is that an illegitimate address was used. If the address on the BC was wrong, what else was wrong on the BC?

“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.”

So if Obama were born in a Hawaii hospital then the hospital would have sent the notification of birth to the Department(?)of Vital Statistics and then the Department of Vital Statistics would have made the list available to the newspapers. But...

What happens for a home birth? I suspect there was and is a mechanism which permits the parents to register a home birth at the Department of Vital Statistics. If true, then it would be possible for an infant born outside of Hawaii to be registered as a Hawaii birth. There might be a number of reasons for parents to lie about the location of the birth—one of which is that US citizenship can be useful.

So false information provided by the parent(s) to the Department of Vital Statistics winds up in the local newpapers but still remains false information though it comes from the Department of Vital Statistics.