article_snippet: YOUNG'UNS: Some of the still-active SSNs belonged to people who were born before teh US Civil War .
article_snippet: the Senate Homeland Security Committee's ranking Democrat, Delaware Sen. Tom Carper, noted that 'a few thousand' of the deceased people who still had active Social Security numbers were born before the Civil War. '
highlights_snippet: Some people with active Social Security numbers were born before the US Civil War .
  