[Genealib] Flash: SSDI now free on GenealogyBank

[Dave Fiske]

This is the Social Security Administration's explanation of what
records are in the SSDI. (From http://www.ssa.gov/history/hfaq.html)

"The Death Index contains a listing of persons who had a Social Security number, who are deceased, and whose death was reported to the Social Security Administration. (The information in the Death Index for people who died prior to 1962 is sketchy since SSA's death information was not automated before that date. Death information for persons who died before 1962 is generally only in the Death Index if the death was actually reported to SSA after 1962, even though the death occurred prior to that year.)"

David Fiske

--- On Wed, 9/10/08, Dick Eastman <richard at eastman.net> wrote:

> From: Dick Eastman <richard at eastman.net>
> Subject: Re: [Genealib] Flash: SSDI now free on GenealogyBank
> To: "Sutton, Linda" <suttonl at oakgov.com>, "Librarians Serving Genealogists" <genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu>
> Date: Wednesday, September 10, 2008, 10:01 AM
> ---> If there was no death payout the SSDI will not
> include their name.
> 
> Not true. That might have been true once but has not been
> true for
> some time. My 15-year-old son had no payout on his death in
> 1994 but
> he is listed in the SSDI. So are thousands of other
> children who died
> and we can assume that 99% of them had no pay-outs.
> 
>  - Dick Eastman
> 
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Sutton, Linda
> <suttonl at oakgov.com> wrote:
> > If there was no death payout the SSDI will not include
> their name. I believe