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Well this is my first post. I was a Freeper back in my college days late ‘90s but haven’t been around here in a long time...Good to be back.

I found this website here:

http://143.216.32.39/archivessrsa/t1tbmain.asp?MainURL=t1tbdui.asp&FunctionName=$SASABKWDSCH

This is the South Australian Government archives. If you go to the link and put in births in the search box, then click search. It will give you a series of id’s. Click on

GRG76/1

This is the Birth information statements 1948-1973. Of course, its restricted so I can’t actually look at whats in there but it says down the page...

Description

Volumes 646A - 999A, 1B - 829B. Statements do not contain information about birth times.

So from this we can see that South Australia did pass through page 44B sometime between 1948 and 1973. It would be cool if they at least had the books scanned in so you could see them online but I can’t find them.

Thanks. I was able to duplicate your steps and confirm that that information is found on that site.

This corrects something I was wrong about earlier. The book 343 of the 1948 South Australian certification refers to an 1884 registry. So in 1884 they were at book 343. By 1948, as you have discovered, they were into the A series. 44 B would perhaps coincide roughly with 1961 when measured from 1948-1973.

So the registry book numbers on the Bomford document do seem to match South Australian birth registry books.

That, it seems to me, is very telling against the Taitz document. There’s no way that birth registry books in Kenya could have the same sequence over the same years.

Quick analysis of your data:

The only easy assumption: Constant births per year

From 1948 to 1973 is 25 years.

646A to 999A is 354 volumes.

1B to 829B is 829 volumes.

Total volumes is 354+829 = 1183

646A to 44 B is 354+44 = 398 volumes

1183 volumes in 25 years is 47.3 volumes per year

Expected years from 1948 to volume 44B = 398/47.3 = 8.4 years

Expected year for 44B = 1948+8.4=1956.4

That is not that far from April 1959 considering that I assumed a constant number of births per year. If that rate was slowing down with time then it could have taken a few more years to get to 44B. Not good news.

When I was checking ancestry.com the volunteer from South Australia had made a post back in 2005 I think it was, about one of the other provinces in Australia allowing free online access to older birth records at that time. From that I gathered South Australia didn't allow free access to any such records online, but you apparently can access old ones (1928 and prior I would guess) in libraries. That still wouldn't help with 1959 so we'll have to wait for direct confirmation from the registry office.

I think it's moot now that wnd.com is bailing on the story. To be objective here, they did say this:

“WND was able to obtain other birth certificates from Kenya for purposes of comparison, and the form of the documents appear to be identical” in their article:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=105764

Clearly the new one looks nothing like the Bomford original or its clone the Kenyan one. The only plausible excuse I can see for wnd.com is that they got punked as well but just never ran with it. So the perps kept at it and probably tried to bag Berg and then Taitz, and eventually she decided to get brave and smoke out what they were all sitting on to that point.

Thanks for the book ranges through 1973. By my calculation it was averaging 21.5 Books per year from 1928 to 1948, not much higher than 1900-1928. But from 1948 to 1973 the increase was from 646A to 829B, with 44B allegedly being hit in 1959 about 10 or 11 years into that 25 year period. It sounds plausible if there was rapid expansion in the province during the baby boom and even more so in the 60s.

The 5733 Page number still doesn't fit and there are the other issues, so it's still possible Bomford’s was hacked to some extent to hasten this “debunking”.