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From: "Linda Warrenburg" <>
Subject: Fw: SSDI & Privacy Rights
Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 16:42:05 -0500


I don't know if this is the place to bring a question like this, but I am
interested in getting some feed-back on this subjuct. Everyone here seems
so knowledgeable on the subject of copyrights that I thought maybe you
could give some light on this matter.
Linda Warrenburg



Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:12 PM
Subject: SSDI & Privacy Rights


> To Anyone With Assistance:
>
> Regarding the availability on the web for use and abuse of SSDI
> information, esp. SS#'s and last place
> of benefit info, what are our rights, cautions, etc, as genealogists?
>
> This was in my mailbox this am, and it greatly concerns me, especially
> since it is "apparently" being
> SET UP and CONDONED by ROOTSWEB????
>
> What do you all think of this?
>
> I feel it is an abominable invasion of family privacy!
> And, I am wondering... Is Rootsweb then, a Company???? Information
> Technology ????
>
>
> ***********
>
> "The latest issue of Rootsweb Review (vol 2, #35) has this suggestion for
> use of the SSDI:
>
> POST-EMs. Now you can attach a message to any of the more than
> 61 million records in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) at
> RootsWeb by using a "post-em," developed by RootsWeb's own Randy
> Winch. Some suggested uses: attach notes to the records of your
> relatives, providing researchers with a direct link to you; add
> background information on an individual in the database, such
> as pointers to other records relating to that individual; or
> add a correction to an incorrect record. Check the records of
> individuals of interest to you often. Someone recently might
> have left a note there for you. To add a note to a record, do
> a search and click on "Post-em" at the end of a record at:
> <http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi>;.
>
> Post-ems are a another example of your contributions at work.
> *************************
>
> ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News
> Vol. 2, No. 35, 1 September 1999, Circulation: 354,233+
> (c) 1999 RootsWeb.com, Inc. <http://www.rootsweb.com/>;
> RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 "

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