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From: "pauli1028 SMITH" <>
Subject: [CO-CEMETERIES] threat to SSDI
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:24:43 -0600

> from Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter (28 Apr 2003) at
> http://www.rootsforum.com/
>
> Proposed Federal Legislation is a Threat to Genealogists
>
> The following is from the California State Genealogical Alliance:
>
> FEDERAL LEGISLATION - A CALL TO ACTION
>
> At the federal level there are two bills on privacy and the use of
> Social Security Numbers working
> their way through the system. They are called the Social Security
> Misuse Prevention Act. Granted,
> the misuse of Social Security Numbers has gone on much too long, but
> as the bills are worded,
> it could spell the end of the Social Security Death Indexes. Even if
> they were to exempt the
> present Death Indexes, no further indexes could be developed.
>
> The Utah Genealogical Society has worked to get the authors to amend
> the bill to protect the
> continued availability of the death indexes, but so far there have
> been no amendments. It is time
> for the genealogy community to let Washington know how we feel. We
> want people's privacy
> protected, but we do not want to see this very important historical
> research tool lost forever. It is
> important to thousands of genealogists and family health historians.
>
> We ask that make the following amendments in S228 and HR637:
>
> 1. Under Sec. 3 (a)(1)(a) DEFINITIONS, add the following definition:
> "SOCIAL SECURITY
> NUMBER - The term 'social security number' refers to the social
> security number of a living
> individual."
>
> 2. Under Sec. 4 (a)(1)(e)(2) LIST OF PAPER AND OTHER NONELECTRONIC
> RECORDS, delete
> "(D) death certificates."
>
> You can contact the authors:
>
> S228
>
> Senator Dianne Feinstein
> 331 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
> Washington, D.C. 20510
> (202) 224-3841/fax (202) 228-3954
> http://feinstein.senate.gov/email.html
>
> Senator Patrick J. Leahy
> 433 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
> Washington, D.C. 20510
> (202) 224-4242
>
>
> Senator Judd Gregg
> 393 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
> Washington, D.C. 20510
> (202) 224-3324
>
>
> HR637
>
> Representative John E. Sweeney
> 416 Cannon Office Bldg.
> Washington, D.C. 20515
> (202)225-5614/Fax (202) 225-6234
>
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> . ---22 April
> 2003, CSGA Legislative Network, Iris Carter Jones.
>
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>
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