One note, the odds of someone who died before 1967 being in the SSDI are
slim. sometimes if a child or widow was drawing on the account and died (
or ceased drawing) after 1967 the death of someone who died in the 1950's
might show up.
Eliz
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On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 10:16 AM, singhals <singh...@erols.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
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