This is serious. If this Bill passes, all public access to SSDI will be lost. The following is taken from Dick Eastman’s newsletter: “On Thursday of this coming week (February 2, 2012), the Subcommittee on Social Security of the House Ways & Means Committee in Washington, D.C., will hold hearings that have the capacity to drastically affect the access of genealogists to the Social Security Death Index (“SSDI”) and related underlying information.” Further information can be found at _http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/01/ssdi-call-to-action- for-genealogists.html_ (http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2012/01/ssdi-call-to-action-for-genealogists.html)