Kathy, Here is my take on the SSDI. One cannot find a 100% method of locating and tagging every individual that is in your database and also in the SSDI. However, you can narrow it down to those that could have been included in the SSDI. Here is my formula using the Detailed Search:
Look for Whom? = Individual Where to look = Birth Date How to look = After What to look for = 1870 AND Look for Whom? = Individual Where to look = Death Date How to look = After What to look for = 1936 AND Look for Whom? = Individual Where to look = Living How to look = Equal To What to look for = NO Clear List before this search Create List Now we need to add the individuals who have no death date recorded but were born after 1870. Look for Whom? = Individual Where to look = Birth Date How to look = After What to look for = 1870 AND Look for Whom? = Individual Where to look = Death Date How to look = Equal to What to look for = (leave blank) Add results to existing List Tag the list with the tag of your choice. If you have already documented some of the individuals in your database you may want to untag them. To do this use the following: Look for Whom? = Individual Where to look = Source-Master Source How to look = Contains What to look for = SSDI ( or any part of your master source name) Clear List before this search Create list and untag Note that between 1936 and 1962 when this database was not computerized only a small percentage will found. Also between 1936 and 1952 farmers and self-employed will not be included. The 1952 is not a mistake. That is when SS became available to those people. Also note that even though SS was not computerized until 1962 some of the data was added as files were needed to be pulled for some reason. Bobby -----Original Message----- From: singhals [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 10:17 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ordering Social Security records Kathy Meyer wrote: > Does anyone have a successful way to search records to come up with a > list of people who would be good prospects for ordering their Social > Security records? > I know they would have had to have died after 1936. I'm not sure if > women registered or not or if everyone registered or if it was just a > random thing for registration. I don't want to pay $29 just to find > out the person never applied for social security or registered with > the system. They're not always on the SSDI because if the family > didn't apply for death benefits, they wouldn't be on there. > Anyone have a good way to create such a list to consider? I tried but > it was too general - too big. I have the deluxe version. > Feel free to reply privately if you have any attachments to share that > couldn't be sent thru the list. > Thanks!! Kathy I don't know how "good" a system it is, but it worked for others for years. FILTERs are: MALE born after 1870 died after 1962 NOT a farmer [this one eliminates a whale of lot of folks] NOT self-employed did NOT die while in the military It is not necessary to have drawn SS; anyone with an SSN will have an application on file. Railroaders filled out the same SSA as the rest of us; IF they first got their card through the RR, their SSN will be a 777-##-####. Federal government employees, civilian or military, have an SSN. State and Local governments -- depends; some had their own independent retirement systems and employees didn't need an SSN. VERY few women had an SSN prior to maybe 1960...because very few women worked in jobs that required an SSN. My GM (1902-1997) used her husband's SSN with a B suffix. Her sister had an SSN as early as 1948, because she was a bank teller. Even fewer children had one. FWIW Cheryl Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
