Anthony wikilegal@inbox.org writes:
On 5/1/07, Rob gamaliel8@gmail.com wrote:
The real point should be if you have to rely on the Social
Security
Death Index to tell you if someone is even alive or dead, you
might
want to consider that you don't have enough reliable sources
for an
article on that person.
I could imagine lots of situations where a person's life was
closely
followed during a certain period, and then the person dropped
into
obscurity, to the point where no one in the media even noticed
his/her
death.
....
Anthony
Absolutely. I think we've all worked on at least one such article; purely off the top of my head I can remember [[Guillermo Hernández-Cartaya]]. I wanted to use the DOJ's biographical information to put his death sometime in the '90s, but that didn't seem kosher at the time.