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Yes but now he has been discovered on the 1940 census confirming the guy existed.
No. It confirms that in 1940 some guy named Harry Bounel existed.
There is nothing to connect him to the President, the President's SSN, or the Harrison J. Bounel found in a single random record search for Obama's SSN a few years ago.
That's right--I read your link and it follows what I checked myself pretty closely. Anyone with an Ancestry.com membership who has a little experience with genealogy searches could track down the same thing--there was never a Harrison J. Bounel (or any other form of the name) living in Chicago in 1940, and just as there's no connection to Connecticut for the people with that name or soundex (names that sound like) searches.
The entire thing is made up. Again--I laughed my head off when the link these guys posted showed the Harry Bounel in the Bronx that they're trying to pass off as part of the Cooke County IL census, because it's a photo copy of the actual census record from 1940 NYC cut off at the top and to the right so that none of the identifying information (location, place of birth, etc.)would show.
No. It confirms that in 1940 some guy named Harry Bounel existed.
There is nothing to connect him to the President, the President's SSN, or the Harrison J. Bounel found in a single random record search for Obama's SSN a few years ago.
and from the Census, its Harry L Bounel, not J. Bounel
I just read what Doc had to say in his article. I found this interesting what he said. He states:
"What about Harrison J. Bounel?' "What I can say is that no such person appears in the Social Security Death Index, making it somewhat unlikely that he was born in 1890 as Orly has always maintained. For all I know, the person does not exist."
Well the 1940 census now proves the guy existed, and that he was born in 1890.
But not that he ever had a SSN. The only Bounel in the entire SSDI is a "Golf Bounel" who died in 1988, and got his SSN in Maryland.
Random record searches are only as good as the databases searched. Garbage in, garbage out.
Too true. I am not going to believe it until the Cold Case Posse hires a database "expert" from the Geek Squad to certify that the data was legitimate.
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