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From: Katherine Flynn <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Social Security Death Index
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2003 09:41:41 -0800 (PST)
In-Reply-To: <25.402b2ab9.2cd547e0@aol.com>


Dear Joan,

I think we are singing from the same hymnbook. Please
note that I did qualify my statement with "in this
case" and even said this was a "preliminary
conclusion" because I do not have data on the exact
date of the SSI source data in other databases.

I was responding to the fact that there were several
postings containing the assumption that the difference
was merely the search engine. I wanted to verify the
cause of the discrepancy in this case. It was
intriguing and warranted further investigation.

All the best.

--- wrote:
> In a message dated 11/1/2003 12:00:57 PM Eastern
> Standard Time,
> writes:
> So the difference is not the search engine in this
> case but rather who keeps their data the most
> current
> - a classic lesson in information searching.
> ------
> I'm sure this is true in this particular case, but
> there are differences in
> search capabilities from one SSDI to
> another--whether or not you can verify
> that based upon this one example or not. Both
> factors are important--being
> up-to-date and having a good, fast, workable search
> engine with advanced search
> capabilities and having an up-to-date database.
>
> Joan
>


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