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Thanks I gave it a try with a search of FR, and FR came back with “Nothing matched your criteria.”

I tried a search engine, one of the results was:

Obama Presidential Eligibility - An Introductory Primer

Last revised: June 5, 2009

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2275574/posts

Is this the FR post you had in mind? If so, I tried the link in the article, and it only took me to the current FAM we’re already quoting. I’m guessing you had another link in mind, or the early version/s of the FAM are in one of the many posts?

I finally found a back way into an archived copy of the Department of State website/s for the period 1997-2000 not on the Internet Archive which has working links, but I found no links for the FAM. You have to go through the ERC to get there. See:

http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/index.html

I did find the FAM on a 2001 snapshot of the State website on the Internet Archive (WayBackMachine). The wording of the paragraphs we have been discussing have changed, but not so much substantively. See:

https://web.archive.org/web/20011203045609/http://www.foia.state.gov/masterdocs/07fam/07m1130.pdf

What I really want is the FAM equivalent for 1970-1971 and back to the beginning.