To Anyone With Assistance: Regarding the availability on the web for use and abuse of SSDI information, esp. SS#'s and last place of benefit info, what are our rights, cautions, etc, as genealogists? This was in my mailbox this am, and it greatly concerns me, especially since it is "apparently" being SET UP and CONDONED by ROOTSWEB???? What do you all think of this? I feel it is an abominable invasion of family privacy! And, I am wondering... Is Rootsweb then, a Company???? Information Technology ???? [email protected] *********** "The latest issue of Rootsweb Review (vol 2, #35) has this suggestion for use of the SSDI: POST-EMs. Now you can attach a message to any of the more than 61 million records in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) at RootsWeb by using a "post-em," developed by RootsWeb's own Randy Winch. Some suggested uses: attach notes to the records of your relatives, providing researchers with a direct link to you; add background information on an individual in the database, such as pointers to other records relating to that individual; or add a correction to an incorrect record. Check the records of individuals of interest to you often. Someone recently might have left a note there for you. To add a note to a record, do a search and click on "Post-em" at the end of a record at: <http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi>. Post-ems are a another example of your contributions at work. ************************* ROOTSWEB REVIEW: RootsWeb's Genealogy News Vol. 2, No. 35, 1 September 1999, Circulation: 354,233+ (c) 1999 RootsWeb.com, Inc. <http://www.rootsweb.com/> RootsWeb.com, Inc., P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 " ___________________________________________________________________ Get the Internet just the way you want it. Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month! Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.