Mark: What kind of information can you find with only someone's name? How often have you found a link in your family tree with only the parents names? It isnt hard to guess a birth year from the pattern of other children being born to a couple. It seems to me, that if someone was persistant enough and was willing to spend the money, they would/could sooner or later get a birth certificate of the person you had listed, even without any other information. We don't have the criminal mind it takes to do something like stealing someone's ID, but there are plenty of people out there that do. I have read cases in the newspapers about people making a "living" doing that sort of thing! What sickos. I always leave it up to a family member whether to be included or not. Afterall, the web viewers may not get to know their name, but I have everything in my gedcom file, and to me, that's what counts. Kathy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Meinhart" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, June 04, 2004 7:03 AM Subject: [KYBOYD] Family Genealogy on the Net-Last Question > Thanks again for those who responded on the original question. > > My question, if all I mentioned is a name, no statistics-period on a living person, how can you > get someone ID through identity theft? > > You can get more than that out of a phone book, name, address, phone no., etc., which is online > also. > > Feel free to respond to the listserve so we all responses, > Mark > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > > ==== KYBOYD Mailing List ==== > You can see the Surnames from Boyd County Submitted by Listserve at: > http://www.geocities.com/meinhartstock/boydsurnames.html > Please Submit Your Boyd Surnames and Leave Your Legacy Behind :) > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >