[Walvoord]

Concerning the birth certificate numbers, I don't see anything very mysterious there. These certificate numbers were issued as the forms were processed by hand by several different clerks. So clerk Number one may have been given the twins to process and another clerk may have been given Obama’s. We don't know the size of the stacks they were working on or the speed at which they worked. Or even if clerk number one took a day of sick leave. It means nothing that Obama’s number is apparently out of sequence.

As far as the newspaper in question, if someone will tell me which newspaper in Hawaii it was, I will let everyone know how which library's accross the country have copies on either microfilm or microfiche and people can begin a comparison process. It could be hundreds.

Splicing film or fiche is not so easy because the print is so very tiny. Altering a printout or scan from the film or fiche is much easier.

[TigersEye]

That sounds reasonable to me.

[Terabitten]

So clerk Number one may have been given the twins to process and another clerk may have been given Obama’s. We don't know the size of the stacks they were working on or the speed at which they worked. Or even if clerk number one took a day of sick leave. It means nothing that Obama’s number is apparently out of sequence.

They're only three digits off. There are a million things that could account for that. The clerk could've accidentally dropped the week's applications and picked them back up, stacked 'em up and gone from top to bottom.

It'd be different if they were 100s of digits off. Three digits is nothing.

[butterdezillion]

It’s not the birth dates and cert#’s that pose the problem. What poses the problem is that the “Date filed” is the date that the state registrar gave the cert number - and the Factcheck one was filed (given a number) 3 days earlier than the Nordykes’ but has a later number. Even if a BC was sitting in a pile somewhere it wouldn’t be given a number until the “date filed”. So piles don’t affect this anomaly at all.