You might try putting a middle initial as the first letter of the last name, i.e. Joan B. Lund has become Joan Blund on a database that I get a lot of junk mail from. Joan --- George & Shiela Irwin <[email protected]> wrote: > Richard Pence: > > Thanks for all the helpful hints on the SSDI. I > expect there are others who > will also appreciate that you have shared your > expertise. > > Right now, I am embedded in tracing family during > the 1700s and 1800s, and > looking at County land deed transfer records for > farmers. But I could not > miss the opportunity to learn something about the > more recent data from > Social Security. > > From my experience in Federal service, database > development is always a > compromise between the content users would like and > the cost others insist > you do not exceed! But sloppy data entry sure is > not very helpful to either > point of view. > > George > > > > ==== ILLOGAN Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe from the Logan County List if you are > in mail mode, send to > [email protected] If you are receiving > messages in the digest mode, send to > [email protected] > > Joan Black Lund [email protected] http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~joanlund/