Could be...but if the parents walked in there on the 29th of August, demanding their daughter’s BC, and an amendment to the death certificate so they could bury her under the name they had wanted to give her, I can imagine the HDOH raising a document then and there.
On the 29th of August: 443 numbers higher than the one she would have had - if it hadn’t disappeared.
1) was the switcheroo made in Aug. ‘61 to please Grandma Dunham so her supposed grandson, born who knows where, would be a US citizen?
2) if it was done in Aug. ‘61, then the new and improved one would have been on file all those years and that info would have automatically been transferred onto a true short form without the need for all the delay, delay, delay, and finally a very sloppy fake one made.
I still want proof positive from an original newspaper that his announcement was published rather than rely on an iffy microfilm pic. I hear the original paper has been found but nothing further.