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From: (Donna Kornrumpf)
Subject: Re: [WORLD-OBITS] OFF-TOPIC--FYI--Decoding Social Security Numbers
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2001 05:06:12 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: "jkrom" <jkrom@jps.net>'s message of Thu, 27 Dec 2001 19:06:14 -0800



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Thank you, the last few OFF-TOPIC-FYI's have been great. Where do you
find such information? Donna

Have a great day......... Donna


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Subject: Re: [WORLD-OBITS] OFF-TOPIC--FYI--Decoding Social Security Numbers
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I found the Social Security information very interesting and informative.
Thank you.
Jean Krom
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From: "Diana Boothe" <>
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Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 9:47 AM
Subject: [WORLD-OBITS] OFF-TOPIC--FYI--Decoding Social Security Numbers


> Was hoping this might help someone in their research.......sorry if it's
> off-topic....<g>
>
> Diana
>
> Decoding the Social Security Number
> (from "Social-Security-Numbers And Other Telling Information:"
> by Simson Garfinkel, published in the Whole Earth Review, Fall 1989)
>
>
> The first three digits of a person's Social Security Number indicate the
> state that the person was living in at the time the number was assigned
(see
> table). The exceptions to this rule are numbers in the 700-729 range,
which
> were issued by the Railroad Retirement agency, the only such retirement
plan
> to have its own block of SSNs.
>
> The fourth and fifth digits indicate the group number. The sequence is
> reported to be odd numbers from 01-09, then even numbers from 10-98, then
> even numbers 02-08, and finally odd numbers 11-99. All numbers issued
before
> 1965 are either odd numbers between 01 and 09, or even numbers between 10
> and 98. The last four digits are the "serial number," and run from 0001 to
> 9999...
>
> 001-003 New Hampshire
> 004-007 Maine
> 008-009 Vermont
> 010-034 Massachusetts
> 035-039 Rhode Island
> 040-049 Connecticut
> 050-134 New York
> 135-158 New Jersey
> 159-211 Pennsylvania
> 212-220 Maryland
> 221-222 Delaware
> 223-231 Virginia
> 232-236 West Virginia
> 232 N. Carolina (1)
> 237-246 N. Carolina
> 247-251 S. Carolina
> 252-260 Georgia
> 261-267 Florida
> 589-595 Florida
> 268-302 Ohio
> 303-317 Indiana
> 318-361 Illinois
> 362-386 Michigan
> 387-399 Wisonsin
> 400-407 Kentucky
> 408-415 Tennessee
> 416-424 Alabama
> 425-428 Mississippi
> 587-588 Mississippi
> 429-432 Arkansas
> 433-439 Louisiana
> 440-448 Oklahoma
> 449-467 Texas
> 468-477 Minnesota
> 478-485 Iowa
> 486-500 Missouri
> 501-502 N. Dakota
> 503-504 S. Dakota
> 505-508 Nebraska
> 509-515 Kansas
> 516-517 Montana
> 518-519 Idaho
> 520 Wyoming
> 521-524 Colorado
> 525 New Mexico
> 585 New Mexico
> 526-527 Arizona
> 528-529 Utah
> 530 Nevada
> 531-539 Washington
> 540-544 Oregon
> 545-573 California
> 574 Alaska
> 575-576 Hawaii
> 577-579 Washington, DC
> 580 Virgin Islands
> 580-584 Puerto Rico
> 586 Guam
> 586 American Samoa
> 586 Phillipine Islands
> 700-729 Railroad Retirement
> (1) Number 232, with middle digits 30, has been allocated to North
Carolina
> from West Virginia.
>
>
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