Here is an excellent idea, forwarded from another list, that will help all of us. don Don Erickson, Colorado Springs CO [email protected] www.pcisys.net/~don_erickson ----- Original Message ----- From: "K . B. Cook" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 7:23 AM Subject: [HOOVER-L] SSAN Solution.... > Fellow listers, > Here’s an appeal to all of you to pull out the copies of the SSAN > application forms you already have filed away in your "stuff" and post them > at Rootsweb. > I just did it for the ones I have and it’s really easy. :O) > 1. Go to: http://www.rootsweb.com/ > 2. Scroll down the home page to Social Security Death Index and click on it. > 3. Enter the name of the person who is on the form you have into the search > engine. > 4. When the right entry comes up, go over to the far right and click on "Add > Post-Em" link. > 5. The "Fill in the blank" form will come up and you can type in the > information just like it’s printed on the form you have in your hands! > 6. Include all the information in the order that it is entered on the form, > so that others have the advantage of all that information. NOTE: You don’t > have to type in the SS Number for the person as the Rootsweb program > includes it. > Since the cost of these forms will be increasing substantially next week, it > would be good if EVERYONE put out the information they already have. Then > whoever else is searching for that same person won’t be required to pay the > new price for the same form you have in your files. And vice-versa! If we > all "plant seed," we’ll all get the crop! And thank Goodness for Rootsweb > providing this service to all of us for FREE! > Be well & God bless, > Kate Beaugrand Cook > Minnesota > [email protected] > or > [email protected] > > > ==== HOOVER Mailing List ==== > Check Dennis Ford Genealogy Home Page > http://home1.gte.net/df1210/ > Researching HOOVERs from 1700 to present. Mainly Adams and York County, PA. 12000 names in my database. > >