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Rachel Denning, Dan Lynch and Brian Speckart browse the recently released 1940s census data at the Find My Past booth during the RootsTech conference at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City this week. (NICK SHORT/Standard-Examiner)

Pay-as-you-go U.K. company entering U.S. genealogy market

Last updated Saturday, February 4, 2012 - 8:15am

SALT LAKE CITY -- Evidence of an explosion of interest and technology is the best way to describe the RootsTech genealogy conference, which runs through today at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City.

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Genealogy services stop listing Social Security numbers

Isaac Wolf, Thomas Hargrove Scripps Howard News Service

Last updated Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 4:33pm

Genealogybank.com became the nation's first ancestry research firm to stop posting Social Security numbers online, after two people complained their privacy was violated when the Social Security Administration falsely listed them as deceased.

"We made the decision several weeks ago that we would rather err on the side of privacy," said Daniel Jones, vice president of consumer products for Newsbank.com, which owns the research service based in Naples, Fla. It made the change Nov. 8.

The nation's largest commercial genealogy research company -- Ancestry.com -- earlier this week also stopped posting Social Security numbers at the request of federal lawmakers. Four Democratic senators, in a Dec. 1 letter to the five biggest services, urged that they withhold some information they get from the federal government under the Freedom of Information Act.

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