"TomR" wrote in message
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This question was posted in another forum by someone that I know and I
thought that I would try posting it here to get some feedback on his
behalf:

He wrote,

"In a house that has ungrounded, 2 prong outlets, with wiring in good
condition, is it acceptable (and allowed by current electrical code) to
run a separate ground wire from the outlets back to the ground at the
panel, in order to be able to replace the 2 prong outlets with 3 prong
outlets? Existing wiring is in very good shape."

Thanks everyone. As I mentioned previously, I did read all of the replies
and passed on the info that I learned etc.

But, I decided to come back to this and post an additional message because I
just got done doing work on a house that I "indirectly" own and which has
mostly all 2-prong outlets where the "Existing wiring is in very good shape"
as in the original question. I discovered that it has metal outlet boxes
and all of the 2-prong receptacles are in metal boxes that are grounded with
a thin ground wire that runs inside the same sheathed wire that contains the
black and white wires. So, I was able to switch out some of the 2-prong
receptacles and replace them with regular 3-prong receptacles that are
grounded to the metal outlet box.