See, what did I tell you ...not only does SS have it's own system, VA still thinks it's one of the colonies...<g>.. Char ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Justin M. Sanders" <jsanders@jaguar1.usouthal.edu> To: COATES-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [COATES-L] Edward Coates Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 23:24:20 -0500 (CDT) On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Hazzledine, Belinda wrote: > When looking in rootsweb for places in Virginia it does not list Radford. > Is Radford a small place inside a bigger place - (if that makes sence) > > > Edward Coates > > > born 28/10/17 > > > died November 1983 > > > Last Residence 24141 (Radford, Radford Va) If you get your SSDI information from Rootsweb, then what they do is to convert the zip code (postal code) into a city, county, and state. The raw information from the Social Security just gives the zip code. Anyway, Radford is a city in Montgomery County, Virginia-- however, Virginia has this strange system of "independent cities" where some cities are not administratively part of the county in which they are physically located. So, while Radford is located geographically within the boundaries of Montgomery County, VA, it is administratively independent of the county, so the 2nd Radford listed in the SSDI refers to the independent city of Radford (in effect, the 2nd Radford is redundant). Keep in mind, that the "last residence" is not necessarily the place of death. These days, a fair fraction of people don't die in their beds, but die in hospitals which may be in the nearest big city-- often not even in the same county as their residence. Justin M. Sanders "I shot an arrow into the air. It fell Dept. of Physics to earth I know not where." --Henry Univ. of South Alabama Wadsworth Longfellow confessing jsanders@jaguar1.usouthal.edu to a sad ignorance of ballistics. ==== COATES Mailing List ==== ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com