I have found an incorrect Numident record

KathyMiller1

I have found an incorrect Numident record that has the correct names of a person and her parents with the birth and death dates of another person with similar name but totally different location. One family is in Henderson, Kentucky and the other in Manatee, Florida.

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No matter how I try to attach this record,

it will have wrong info for half of it. What can be done?

The correct Bonnie for those birth and death dates is Bonnie Naomi Clark GD1P-Q32. Bonnie Clestie Wilson PQNG-399 belongs to those parents and places on the Numident.

Thanks for looking into this.

Kathy Miller

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@KathyMiller1

NUMIDENT records are maintained by the Social Security Administration (SSA) and not by FamilySearch. They can only be corrected by contacting the SSA and by the look of the information contained in the website not something easily corrected even by direct relatives. The best thing to do to help is by putting in notes and comments in your research.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

No edits are possible on an index-only collection. You may wish to order the SS-5 from the Social Security Administration.

https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/United_States,Social_Security_Numerical_Identification_Files(NUMIDENT)_-_FamilySearch_Historical_Records

Adrian Bruce1

I took a (not-so) quick look at Ancestry, whose data surely comes from the SSA.

Their "U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014" has Social Security Number 262-14-3548 down as Bonnie C Mills, born 30 August 1911, died 16 Jan 1992.

On the other hand, their "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007" has SSN 262143548 (i.e. the same SSN) born 2 March 1921, died 16 Jan 1992. Her parents are James B Wilson, and Rosie C Willingham.

The same collection has SSN 400207979 with parents James G Wilson, and Rosie C Willingham, born 2 March 1921, died 7 Oct 2007.

I then checked 262143548 in the US National Archives AAD NUMIDENT stuff and the 2 different birth dates (1911 and 1921) appear there as well. The SS-5 record says something about an Entry Code of 2, meaning "Duplicate SSN [social security number] - change or replacement", also Interview D, meaning "Duplicate request; evidence of identity only submitted"

So yes, the errors clearly originate upstream in the original data, even before the National Archives got the stuff.

I shall leave it as an exercise for the reader (as my maths text books used to say) to work out quite what went on. 😕