A question about DeCosta. The line “date accepted by state registrar”. The date is 1930. That is 29 years before Hawaii attained statehood. There would have been a territorial registar, but not a state registrar. Or does the computer program that produces these COLBs not differentiate pre and post statehood dates? Just asking and am open to explanations.
First COLB has an entry that states: ‘DATE ACCEPTED BY REGISTRAR’.
Second COLB states: ‘DATE ACCEPTED BY STATE REGISTRAR’
Here is the long-form birth certificate of one of the Nordyke twins. The Nordyke example is important, because if Obama was born around the same date in the same hospital (Kapiolani), Obama's long-form birth certificate should look just like the Nordyke certificate.
Looking at the fields on the Nordyke birth certificate, both fields 20 and 22 refer to "accepted."
The Nordyke-style basis for birth registration seems consistent with the Decosta short-form birth certificate, in that the operative word is "accepted."
The different word "filed" in Obama's may be indicative that a document other than a hospital-generated certificate of live birth was the basis of the birth registration, such as an affidavit of birth filed by a family member.
What would be useful would be to see what a short-form COLB based on the Nordyke original birth certificate would look like - would it use "accepted" or "filed?"
Not enough information to reach any conclusion on this.
I just noticed that Patricia DeCosta's mother, Rose Long Lew, is listed as Caucasian Hawaiian. However, her Standard Certificate of Marriage lists her race as Chinese (as I would have guessed from her name).
So, I guess the lesson is, don't expect accuracy and consistency out of vital records bureaucrats, and don't automatically jump to conspiratorial conclusions over random glitches.