i just read a few months ago at the Social Security site that if some one wants to buy the master cd of the deaths it cost 10,000 plus you have to get the updates to it too.  so its not cheap any more. still not sure about the keeping the records where you cannot see them any more unless you pay. the people are dead but i have heard some of the records have live people numbers  on it too by mistake. so that's something else the government seems not to be able to do right but now they are getting money for that info.   thats it take care ronald schwarz