{"id":7807,"date":"2018-10-24T14:13:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2018-10-24T14:13:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T14:13:15","slug":"removing-the-social-security-number-and-more-from-an-indiana-death-certificate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=7807","title":{"rendered":"Removing the Social Security Number and More from an Indiana Death Certificate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Ancestry.com<\/em>&#8216;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tkqlhce.com\/click-865524-11714212?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fsearch%2Fdb.aspx%3Fdbid%3D60716\">Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011<\/a>,&#8221; the Social Security numbers have been &#8220;removed&#8221; from the images of the death certificates. I&#8217;m not certain this really helps cut down on fraud, but that&#8217;s a topic for another post.<\/p>\n<p>What is irritating is that in some cases the &#8220;removal&#8221; makes the remaining information difficult to see.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7808\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/indiana-joseph-neill.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"656\" height=\"503\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/indiana-joseph-neill.jpg 656w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/indiana-joseph-neill-300x230.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 656px) 100vw, 656px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The 1984 death certificate for Joseph Neill who died in St. Joseph County, Indiana, has the Social Security number &#8220;white-ed out.&#8221; The only problem is that this made the place of birth difficult to see.<\/p>\n<p>I wouldn&#8217;t be bothered by this as much if I really failed to understand the necessity of removing a Social Security number from a death certificate from 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Any bank, credit card company, etc. that gives credit to someone using an identity of a man born in 1901 (as this man was) based on an application in 2018 does not deserve to be in business.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Ancestry.com&#8216;s &#8220;Indiana, Death Certificates, 1899-2011,&#8221; the Social Security numbers have been &#8220;removed&#8221; from the images of the death certificates. I&#8217;m not certain this really helps cut down on fraud, but that&#8217;s a topic for another post. What is irritating is that in some cases the &#8220;removal&#8221; makes the remaining information difficult to see. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}