Is it a known fact that all Hawaiian births were recorded in newspapers?
I was born in ‘68. My mother kept a very detailed baby book for me. Every darn thing you could think of was recorded or saved.
Same for my sister.
I remember asking her why there wasn’t a newspaper clipping about my birth in my baby book. (I was asking because my sister had one in hers’.)
She told me she never notified the newspaper about me being born. So no notice.
Just to add more to this story, my mother and father subscribed to and read daily every main newspaper in every city they ever lived. They spent a least an hour every evening going through them. (news junkies-old school style)
They read everything—news, sports, opinion, wedding and death notices, etc....
I’m thinking if my mother or father saw a notice of my birth, they would have saved it.
Just wondering aloud if every birth was put in the paper, or only when submitted.
Very interesting, Aurorales. I remember being asked at the hospital if I wanted my kids’ announcements in the paper. Is your mom saying she had to actually go to the newspaper herself and place the announcement, or did somebody at the hospital ask permission to place the announcement in the paper?
BTW, I’ve been meaning to make sure you knew one of the latest additions to my blog:
http://butterdezillion.wordpress.com/2010/02/25/corroboration-re-cert-numbers-assigned/