One word of caution to all of us who have been long time “birthers”.
I have noticed that “newbies” - the sincere ones - are sometimes treated like obots just because they come lately to this issue.
We have spent three years earning our spurs, we should not hack the newbie to bits.
I ain’t easy teaching people facts that we know by rout.
We were all there once with all the same questions - so, “get them educated.”
If I had been bashed about the way some of the newbies are now.........well, I wouldn’t have gone on to uncover some enormous anomalies that occurred with the obama newspaper birth announcements, and most especially- the Birth Index books in the Honolulu Dept. of Health.
http://myveryownpointofview.wordpress.com/2010/05/28/extra-extra-announcing-obamas-birth
http://myveryownpointofview.wordpress.com/2011/03/06/its-a-date
Fantastic and thorough research. Question re the birth announcements: Have you considered looking at other repositories for the Hawaian newspapers beyond the LOC and Hawaii? For example, large university libraries?