Hi all, Wow! This opened something up!! Thanks to all who had suggestions of places to find the SSDI. I was looking for birth and death dates, but of eight I looked up, I only found one. One other was probably too recent, but, as a test, I looked up others I had found years ago - and they weren't there! These were two each from Maine, Mass., and Florida. Maybe it is those "anti-genealogy legislators." Or could older records be deleted, at least from the publicly available list? No one named Madden is listed for Berkshire County, MA earlier than 1967 in several versions I looked at. (That includes trolley motorman Euclid Madden, who was fined $300 and spent six months in jail for almost killing President Theodore Roosevelt with a trolley car!) Diane, I don't know why your e-mail didn't make it past the College filters - several others that look pretty much the same did get through. I have added you to my "safe sender" list. I assume what you sent was what appeared on the list. Thanks, again, Bob A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>