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Subject: Re: SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 23:36:30 EST
In a message dated 1/26/99 6:01:27 PM Pacific Standard Time,
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A SS5 photocopy is more reliable than a dc. Example, my father in law
Clyde E Arnette. His common law wife gave Walter ARNETTE as Clyde's
father. On Clyde's ss5 application, William was given.
Besides, you can tell whether the person was literate enough to fill out
the form.
David's maternal gf had his wife fill it out. And the man left a letter
out of his name. And they accepted it with the two different spellings.
I wonder what those look like now when a baby is given a SSN in the
hospital.
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Don't be too certain about who filled out the early SS 5 forms. I know for
certain my grandmother filled out her mother's form when she applied for a SS
number in the 1960's. Her mother at that time was in her 70's.
Lisa
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