It looks like it. It seems that the program forgot that we could send an FGS to a web site. About all that I can suggest is that you remove the checkmark from the SS number fact's FGS output too. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "B. Kelly-Bly" <bkbnj@optonline.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 11:39 AM Subject: RE: [FO] SSN fact not showing in reports > This may have been covered, and I simply just missed it. > > I use the predefined fact for Social Security Number to keep track of those > that I find. I have my database set so that it does not appear in Books or > WWW sites. > > I just created a web site and choose the Family Group Sheet format, needless > to say the Social Security Numbers appeared on the web site. Thankfully I > decided to check the newly created website before uploading it. > > Does this mean that when you choose to create a web site that it ignores the > fact setting for WWW site if you choose Family Group Sheet as the web site > format? > > Regards, > Brianne Kelly-Bly > bkbnj@optonline.net >

Other than personal preference, you need not worry about posting Social Security Numbers for dead people. I collect the Social Security Numbers of related dead people, as reported to the Social Security Administration and publicly posted on Ancestry, Rootsweb, FamilySearch, and several other sites, and include these numbers in the SSN fact in my database. Because they have already been "cancelled" by SSA after being reported for deaths, I doubt there's any potential for fraud--at least no greater than "just making one up". And, anyone can freely get the numbers from the public databases noted above. I think it is valuable to post the number for dead people so others can efficiently search the SS Death Master File [SSDI] and get additional information, or order the SS-5. I don't collect or list SSN's for living people, nor do I post any of their info on the web or share it with non-related people. even further OffTopic, I also find it interesting that SSDI lists 50-100 people a year who died from 1900 to 1936, and almost 2000 born 1800-1850. None of these people appear eligible for SSN's, much less benefits! typographical errors, I suppose . . . Mike RANSOM