This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/lEC.2ACE/472.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Mark wrote, "...the SSN you provided suggests that Gordon was born in CA, not WI." Not at all. It demonstrates that Gordon was in California when he applied for his Social Security Number, sometime prior to 1951--but has nothing to do with where he was born. (The practice of issuing a child a SSN at birth is relatively recent.)