[BreezyDog]

Are these supposed to be in numerical order? Then why is Nordyke’s 61 10637 and obama’s 61 10641 and he was born 1 day before her?

[afraidfortherepublic]

Are these supposed to be in numerical order? Then why is Nordyke’s 61 10637 and obama’s 61 10641 and he was born 1 day before her?

Because 4 other children were born during the length of time it took for the news to get from Kenya to Hawaii?

[Hotlanta Mike]

Are these supposed to be in numerical order? Then why is Nordyke’s 61 10637 and obama’s 61 10641 and he was born 1 day before her?

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Compare Fields 18b and 19b between the Obama and Susan Nordykes’ COLB.

Nordyke

18b 8-7-61 (Same as Obama)

19b 8-11-61 (3 days later than Obama)

Obama

18b 8-7-61

19b 8-8-61

But Obama’s certificate number is issued after Nordyke

Nordyke 61 10637

Obama 61 10641

[muawiyah]

Simple answer ~ pre printed forms originally, then overtyped with permanent information that'll never change at that hospital, and then later, after the birth, typed information pertinent to the birth recorded. Finally, overtyping by the original typewriter of something left out at the hospital.

Plus, the whole stack of documents were sequentially numbered with a number machine (I have one BTW) in the upper right.

After they were sequentially numbered they were placed at work stations where they would be convenient to the clerk/nurses who filled in the blanks.

That's how the dates fail to follow the number machine sequence.

To a degree I spent four decades thinking about how people fill out documents, how that can be done most efficiently, and instructions to guide them in doing the job. I also spent time beating them down for failing to pay the right prices!

[IceAge]

Check out the date his mother signed it. Must have been a hard birth, took her several days to get up the energy to sign it. Seriously, could be that record keeping wasn't top notch on the island back then.

[CommerceComet]

Are these supposed to be in numerical order? Then why is Nordyke’s 61 10637 and obama’s 61 10641 and he was born 1 day before her?

It is possible that the BCs were prepared in batches. The information for 2-3 days of births might be given to a secretary to prepare for signatures. The secretary could have just taken them in the stack order rather than in birth order. (Unlike today, back in those days, the birth mother was kept in the hospital for a few days after the birth, so there would have been no big hurry to prepare the BC.) Given the time and the technology used at the time, I don't find this too alarming.

What I can't get my head around, is why would someone spend a reported $2 million to fight the release of a supposedly non-damaging document? Even if it is someone else's money, it makes no sense. If this is taxpayer money, then the taxpayers have a right to know why that money was spent.