Does anyone know when they actually started issuing Soc securiting number?
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| Posted by: Macfive 08-Dec-2003, 09:04 AM |
| The social security death index has 71,000,000 records and it is a good place to get information about deceased relatives. The information is not extensive, but it might give you some clues in your search. http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ |
| Posted by: CelticRose 09-Dec-2003, 06:20 PM |
| Thanks Paul! I actually discovered this last night while I was snooping around on rootsweb.com. Thanks again! Does anyone know when they actually started issuing Soc securiting number? |
| Posted by: maggiemahone1 09-Dec-2003, 06:53 PM |
| Mid November 1936. maggiemahone1 |
| Posted by: CelticRose 09-Dec-2003, 08:23 PM |
| Thanks a lot Maggie! I didn't realize it was that early. |
| Posted by: CeltWolf 30-Mar-2004, 03:23 PM |
| Doesn't help too much, though, doesn't give you any real information. Woo, found my grandmother, but that doesn't help me, because it doesn't tell me what I need to go further back, unless, perhaps, I pay for it. Blah. Ok, sure the work would also be redundant, my father's done some tracing of his side of the family, and they kicked around the midwest for a while. He's gone back a few generations past my grandmother and hasn't gotten out of the country, yet, far's I know. |
| Posted by: CelticRose 31-Mar-2004, 01:13 AM |
I have had a problem with the SS index as well. I find that I don't really get too much information from them either. maybe I am doing something wrong!  |
| Posted by: dfilpus 06-Apr-2004, 04:01 PM |
| The information on a single individual in the SSDI is quite limitted, but I have found a couple of relatives in there that I did not have birth or death dates for, so it has had its use. Of course, that is true of any data base. I recently discovered that my library has access to the HeritageQuest data bases online free for library cardholders. The census data for 1910-1930 was very useful for extending my family in some directions. However, most of my family was not in the censuses at all, even those I knew were in the country at the time. The other data bases came up completely dry. |