Let's try this one...
They could have been staring at a computer screen with a database RECORD on which the date of the late birth registration was entered and the country of origin for the original birth certificate accepted for exchange.
CertificaTION of Live Birth -- A computer-generated printout of the source birth record document(s).
The Hawaiian "CertificaTION of Live Birth" -- 13 fields of data:
The Hawaiian "CertificATE of Live Birth" -- 24 fields of data
(really 38 depending on how you count them):
The most important data fields for Obama will be Blocks 5-9, 18-22 and most importantly, Block 23.
