From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Fri Apr 14 09:50:54 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3EFosjb008113; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:50:54 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3EFosCX019853 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:50:54 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k3EDIXFI031217 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:18:33 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k3EDIX74031216 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:18:33 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k3E2LtFI029143 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:21:55 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k3E4s45U014511 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:54:04 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JYoung6180@aol.com Thu Apr 13 22:54:03 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k3E4s3jb014500 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:54:03 -0600 Received: from imo-m14.mx.aol.com (imo-m14.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.204]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k3E4s3oL015870 for ; Thu, 13 Apr 2006 22:54:03 -0600 Received: from JYoung6180@aol.com by imo-m14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.3a8.54a0fa (16781) for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:53:48 -0400 (EDT) From: JYoung6180@aol.com Message-ID: <3a8.54a0fa.317084dc@aol.com> Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 00:53:48 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5021 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Social Security Numbers I was curious one day and was looking up my deceased husband's Social Security information. I was astonished to find that in the internet records, he was listed as having received his SS card in California. He had always lived in Washington, so searched some more and found that evidently at one time, California was running short of numbers. Some Washington state numbers were transferred to California, therefore he is listed as having received his SS card in California. Puzzle solved. The correspondance I received stated that the state in which the card was issued cannot be changed without valid proof. The only proof I would have would be that he was a lifelong resident of Walla Walla County. If one state borrowed numbers from another state/states, you may run into this problem also. Best wishes with your searches! Mary ---- Mary- I don't know who told you that or where you heard it, but it wouldn't be possible. Only the first three digits of the SS number represent the state where the card was issued. The middle two numbers and the ending four numbers are not locality-based. To this day they have not run out of numbers. If a person has a card that was issued in a given state based upon the first three numbers, then that is where the person obtained his card. It doesn't necessarily mean he ever lived there--he may have worked for a company headquartered there when SS first came into existence and obtained the card there for work purposes. Joan