The source document for the forged Kenyan Birth Certificate has apparently been identified. It seems to have come from a geneology site about the Bomford family, originally of Ireland, but obviously with a branch of the family tree in Australia. The Bomford family website contains a picture of an Australian family member's birth certificate from 1959. The form is identical to the supposed Kenyan certificate being circulated as President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate.
David Weigel of The Washington Independent (my source for this diary) lists the many similarities between the actual Australian birth certificate and the fake "Kenyan" birth certificate (Kenya is in quotes because, as we've all read, the Republic of Kenya was not 'born' until several years after President Obama was).
The original Bomford birth certificate:
http://www.bomford.net/...
The fake Obama birth certificate:
http://www.scribd.com/...
Excerpts from the original post at The Washington Independent follow (original reporting here: http://washingtonindependent.com/...
- The design is identical, down to the seal at the top and the classifications (”Christian name,” etc) used for identifying the baby.
- The “registrar” on the Bomford document is G.F. Lavender. On the Taitz document, it’s E.F. Lavender.
- The “district registrar” on the Bomford document is J.H. Miller. On the Taitz document, it’s M.H. Miller.
- The number of the book is identical on both documents: Book 44B, Page 5733.
What’s more likely — that two Kenyan bureaucrats shared last names with two Australian bureaucrats, and that the numbers on both certificates were identical? Or that someone used this document, available online for anyone who wanted to look, to forge the Obama “certificate?”
UPDATE: It seems the original source for this story may have come from Politijab, so I add a link to provide credit where credit is due:
http://politijab.com/...
UPDATE 2: thanks to pakaal, here is a side by side comparison of the two documents:
http://i190.photobucket.com/...