We don't often ask for your help, but this is a serious issue and a community-wide response is needed.

The revenue-generating provision mandates that any death reported to the Social Security Administration be withheld from the Social Security

The estimate then is that 9.4 million more deaths will occur in the U.S. before a single one of them is in the SSDI that we access.

Genealogists and anyone interested in open access to public records, please sign this petition!

Here are some of the efforts genealogists make – for the public good – using the SSDI.

Here at MGC, we’ve been watching the U.S. government confront the massive issue of fraudulent payments. The IRS has been hemorrhaging money by issuing refund...

On 1 March 2013, NAPHSIS unilaterally released the draft version of the 2011 Model Act and Regulations. It was never approved by the CDC.

These battles can’t be won if they’re fought by only a few.

Unlike the House bill we discussed earlier, this Senate bill has fraud prevention built in.

The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York, Inc. has published the following letter, which is of utmost importance.

H.R.3475 is a good example of the type of bill that is hard to understand as it takes a little bit of decoding.

We are pleased to have a guest posting from Trish Hackett Nicola, CG, of Seattle, Washington.

We all need to get to know our congressmen and women and let them know that genealogy stimulates business.