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 [email protected] 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 ???? > > [email protected] > *********** > > "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 "