...Sadly, Hawaii decided to save some money and omit the page images. Instead, they entered the key birth details into a database and pronounced that a certified copy of those details would fulfill the law's requirements. That's all the short-form is: the output of a database query formatted onto expensive looking paper and stamped and signed by an official.
And just what do you think might be inside those folders marked 'births' in the archives?
169 posted on 01/24/2015 9:29:00 PM PST by Fred Nerks
(Fair Dinkum!)