Comments on: Please sign this petition to help protect the SSDI

By: Karen Cutter

Karen Cutter — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:01:50 +0000

Please, allow SSDI be viewed by all.

By: Doris Weaver

Doris Weaver — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:08:28 +0000

I thought about that after I sent it. It's been helpful to me too, at times.
Doris

By: Janice Cronan

Janice Cronan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:26:45 +0000

<wbr>Glad there are people out there like Iris, What an encourager! Go girl, Go!

By: Iris Fields

Iris Fields — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:31:50 +0000

If you can’t sign in, CALL the whitehouse.. call your senators and your reps.. send them emails… don’t give up with the “I tried” In fact, if you did get to sign the pettition, do all the others too….

By: Megan Smolenyak

Megan Smolenyak — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:22:51 +0000

I did not start the petition, but think it’s very important, so have been trying to spread the word. Having said that, I’m very frustrated with all the difficulties folks seem to be having. For whatever reason, it went smoothly for me, but there seem to be a lot of issues with the petition environment.

By: Janice Cronan

Janice Cronan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:01:48 +0000

I’ve tried and cannot get the “sign the petition” icon to work on either server. What a shame, I’m sure more would sign if it were possible. Thanks Janice

By: Megan Smolenyak

Megan Smolenyak — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:40:28 +0000

Hi Janice, I’ve heard from other problems that there are some hiccups as well. Although it’s a pain, I hear that IE works. For whatever reason, it worked for me in Firefox.

By: Janice Cronan

Janice Cronan — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:36:20 +0000

I have tried for quite awhile to sign the petition. I have singed up with a user account and I see I am signed in. The “Sign the Petition” icon is not highlighted where I can select it. I have followed the directions below: I have tried deleting cookies, which happens every time I sign out, using AOL and Firefox, don’t know what else to try. I would really like to sign, and understand this enough to encourage our Genealogy society members to sign also.

By: Megan Smolenyak

Megan Smolenyak — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:47:10 +0000

Unfortunately, it’s not quite that simple, Doris. One of the primary reasons the SSDI exists is to prevent fraud, and if you remove the numbers, you eliminate that value. Also, the numbers actually are quite useful in terms of telling us which state and roughly someone’s SS was issued. I know it’s been very helpful in some of my forensic cases.

By: Doris Weaver

Doris Weaver — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:23:57 +0000

For Pete’s sake just remove the SS numbers, & leave the rest be. It wouldn’t take a genius to figure that out. Genealogists don’t need them.