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From: "mike stroud" <>
Subject: Re: [PACAMBRI] Social Security Records
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 19:33:02 -0000


In addition to what was mentioned below, please allow me to add another
reason why we can't seem to find our relatives on the SS Death Index.

For two or three years I kept checking to try and find my uncle. He was
deceased and for all the right reasons, should have been there, but wasn't.
His name was Bruce Donald ________. I tried every angle I could think
of.......Bruce Donald______, Bruce _______, Donald______, Donald
Bruce_______, but he never showed up. Finally, the other day I decided to
just put B _________, and there he was!

Just remember to try every spelling and abbreviation you can think of.


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From: phylwint <>
To: <>
Date: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 7:25 PM
Subject: [PACAMBRI] Social Security Records


>The reason many people don't show up on the Social Security Death Index is
because their deaths happened before the mid-1960s. There are a few on the
index for the 1960s but most are from 1970 and later. I believe I read
somewhere Social Security has no plans at this time of going back and
picking these earlier deaths up. As for the statement that when a survivor
drew a monthly check, the husband or wife of the original pension wouldn't
show up - that isn't quite right. It may have been the rule for early
deaths under Social Security but that changed by the 1990s. My father was
the only one of my parents who worked for a wage. He drew a social security
pension, died in 1989; mother drew a death benefit (burial - $250), and went
on to draw his monthly social security pension until she died 18 months ago.
There must be another reason for the party not showing up on the records.
There is always the chance of an error on the index. Sometimes it is a
matter of always knowi!
>ng Grandmother as Betty when her name was really Elizabeth Jane, the name
on her birth certificate. Other times there was another marriage after the
first husband died, but the wife continued to draw under the surname of the
first marriage even after she married a second time.
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