-----Original Message----- From: Robin Carpenter <ANALYTIX@valley.net> To: CARPENTER-L@rootsweb.com <CARPENTER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, October 25, 1999 11:30 AM Subject: SS Deaths Index I recently tried the Soc Sec deaths index, to find Joseph Griswold Carpenter's death. He was born 1894/5 in Michigan, and would have been alive at least until the mid-1960s. But the SS records do not show him. Can anyone here explain this? Would not the SS deaths include "everyone" whose working life extended into the 1930s (and who must by now be deceased)? Robin C. Hello Robin; If no death benefit was applied for/or paid then it is my understanding that the person would not appear in the SSDI. I could be wrong. Donald KEIFFER KEIFFER family genealogist searching: KEIFFER, ARMENTROUT, MULLINS, ROBINSON, MEADOWS, SCARBOROUGH GARFIELD, TEW, BILLINGS, JAUNDRELL BURCHFIEL, SHAYHAN, HOWELL, HINDMAN ROOT, WHITELEY, WALTERS, CARPENTER, PENNINGTON KEIFFER family website- www.flash.net/~dkeiffer e-mail- dkeiffer@flash.net Genealogy is my hobby........ THE MASTER GENEALOGIST is my program of choice.