Hi Shirley and List, If you mean deceased relatives, the numbers are public record. If I am not mistaken, the numbers are being re-used for living people. Hopefully, no one is sharing records of living people. I think this is an important issue in genealogy and I welcome the discussion. April Coggins -----Original Message----- From: outhouse@ionet.net <outhouse@ionet.net> To: MSITAWAM-L@rootsweb.com <MSITAWAM-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 8:04 PM Subject: [MSITAWAM-L] Social Security #. > Hi list, > >I would like to address something that bothers me. Do you think it wise >to post Social Security numbers of our loved ones >with all of fraud that goes on in our world every day? I personally >would not want a person of that character to use my loved ones >identity. But there are those that do. My thoughts are keep the >numbers for your personal satisfaction, give them to family in their >copy of the family research, but don't make them so PUBLIC. > >Shirley in OK. >