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What a colossal screw up from the government. Maybe a few people who received these notices regarding their dead relatives might get into genealogy if they have not already. What I find interesting is the people who still reside in the same area as their grandparents/great-grandparents as mentioned in the article. We live now in a very transient society, but there are still large groups of people who live in the same area as their relatives.
They say "ignore" the message, but I would keep it with my ancestors' records just for laughs. On a gentler note, a draft notice for a long-passed relative reminds us that they were people with lives, duties and worries not much different from ours today.
What a colossal screw up from the government. Maybe a few people who received these notices regarding their dead relatives might get into genealogy if they have not already. What I find interesting is the people who still reside in the same area as their grandparents/great-grandparents as mentioned in the article. We live now in a very transient society, but there are still large groups of people who live in the same area as their relatives.
Location: Chapel Hill, NC, formerly NoVA and Phila
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What a colossal screw up from the government. Maybe a few people who received these notices regarding their dead relatives might get into genealogy if they have not already. What I find interesting is the people who still reside in the same area as their grandparents/great-grandparents as mentioned in the article. We live now in a very transient society, but there are still large groups of people who live in the same area as their relatives.
Haha! It seems that if the state's computer system were Y2K compliant (remember how important that was?) that this wouldn't have happened. If it were compliant, they'd have had to enter 4-digit years instead of 2-digit years.
Being a software engineer I sympathize in trying to make something user error proof... and being a human I sympathize with mistakes made.
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