As you may or may not know, the SS Administration has announced that the price for requesting SS-5 forms is going from $7 to $27 in July! To help keep down costs, a reasercher on one of my lists suggested the following. I think it's a great idea and certainly easy enough to do! I have her permission to spread this around. Feel free to do likewise! > 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 > kbcook@cfaith.com > or > k.b.cook@worldnet.att.net -- Cherie Atkinson Clark chersfmly@aol.com http://members.aol.com/chersfmly/ Looking for ATKINSON in Ohio Co WV and Washington Co PA, FIFE in Allegheny and Washington Co PA, KIMMINS (or KIMMONS) in Ohio and Marshall Co WV and Washington Co PA, SKILES in Washington Co PA, TOLBERT in Carroll Co VA and Raleigh and Fayette Co WV, WEBB in Carroll Co VA, McDAID in Washington Co PA and Marshall Co WV, WOLFE in Greene Co and Washington Co PA, FARIS in Ohio Co WV and Delaware Co OH, McCONNELL in Allegheny Co PA, MORROW in Allegheny Co PA, SUPLER in Washington Co and Greene Co PA, and way too many associated families to list! **There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.** (Hodding Carter)