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Jack Ferman
- Jan 1, 1970
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I think almost every state has migrated to the Soundex system for ID and"D. said:If that is the number on a driver's license you may need to show that
for ID but many states are now replacing the SS number with their own
state-generated number as a matter of privacy. As long as you give
them the special private number on a driver's ID you have fulfilled
the obligations under law for ID purposes.
driver's license numbers. You will note that the first four characters in
your DL or ID number is the first letter of your surname and then three
numbers based on the consonents in your surname. This is the Soundex value
of your surname and it is the basis of sorting and indexing US and some
state census information since before 1870. Soundex was not used to
generate any part of a SS#. Based on my surname, Ferman, my Soundex in the
census and my drivers license first four are F655, but my SS# starts out
473. My father's SS# did not start out with 473.