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From: "Darrell A. Martin" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Social Security Tags
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2002 18:46:45 -0600
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In-Reply-To: <CHEMKKAJHOKJPIEOPLKDMEHADAAA.clcasper@sprynet.com>


At 03:01 PM 11/25/02 -0800, Cheri Casper wrote:
>Darrell - However, it should be noted that the SSN's of deceased persons are
>readily available all over the web (Rootsweb, Ancestry, FamilySearch.org),
>on CD's, etc., making any nondisclosure feeble at best. The websites that
>make such available have helped me tremendously in my research (once I knew
>where a person died, getting a death certificate was simple). FWIW, I
>always suppress SSN tags only because I don't think they add any real value
>to narratives (and those are currently the only reports I use).
>
>CheriC =^..^=

Hi, Cheri:

Once the SSN death info is publicly posted, I agree. Before that
(especially with someone recently deceased), caution should be the order of
the day. My point is that "living" is not the criterion by which one should
work; rather, it is the public or private nature of the information that is
important.

Darrell


Darrell Allen MARTIN
a native Vermonter currently in exile in Addison, Illinois
www.darrell-martin.net/genealogy/


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