On 4/24/2021 12:54 PM, jmcquown wrote:
> On 4/23/2021 1:33 AM, Sqwertz wrote:
>> On Sun, 18 Apr 2021 10:15:45 -0400, jmcquown wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/18/2021 9:27 AM, Gary wrote:
>>>
>>>> Jill, once we get married, I can handle all that for you. lol
>>
>>> Maybe you could
>>> take care of that for me. I'll do like my mom did, stand inside and
>>> point out the spots you might have missed.
>>
>> Was that proposal and acceptance right here in RFC? And he didn't
>> have to beat anybody up? (Booooooo)
>>
> Nope.
>
>> You're way too easy, Jill!
>>
>> -sw
>>
> Let's add a whole bunch of winkies so everyone will know I was
> being facetious.
>
> Jill

I'm happy to see that at least *you* understand the meaning of winkies.

And this one for happy: :-D

On Sat, 24 Apr 2021 19:31:25 -0500, cshenk wrote:

> jmcquown wrote:
>
>> On 4/19/2021 11:06 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> I guess I could also check out SS Death Index. Actually, no, you
>>> can't anymore without buying an online subscrioption. And hose start
>>> at $1,000/year and go up to $14.5K/year. Anybody else offerin it
>>> online free or paid, has databases that only go back to 2014 at the
>>> most recent. And the data is still very inaccurate. Goverment data
>>> should be free, not collected with our tax dollars then sold back to
>>> us.
>>
>> About the SS Death Index. I agree with you it should be free
>> information. Years ago I got photocopies of my grandparents' (on
>> both sides of the family) actual Social Security Applications via
>> that site. The copies are in their handwriting and date to the
>> 1930's, which is when Social Security was still a new idea.
>>
>> Didn't cost a thing. I was doing it for family genealogy
>> information. Copies of the applications provided me with the names of
>> my great grandparents, which I was never sure about. My dad's
>> grandfather's name was Martin Luther McQuown. Huh. I didn't know
>> that. I did know his grandmother's name was Rosa Reithmiller. We're
>> mostly Scottish but a Pennsylvania dutch German woman came into the
>> picture.
>>
>> Dad's father continued in that vein and married Lena Ruffner, whose
>> father was Lewis Ruffner and her mother was Susan Catherine Weiss.
>> From Indiana, Pennsylvania or thereabouts.
>>
>> Why should the government charge us to find out information like this?
>>
>> A side note: I found a copy of Lewis Ruffner's discharge papers in a
>> drawer in this house. He was a Private in the 5th Regiment of the
>> Pennsylvania Volunteers. Local militia. It describes him as a
>> Blacksmith by trade and says he was 32 years old, 5'4", fair
>> complexion, brown eyes, light hair.) He served two years and was
>> discharged, Paid in full $52.97 November 7, 1898.
>>
>> Jill
>
> Mothers and mothers maiden name and dates of birth.

????????????? Another head scratcher.

-sw