Yes, this is a good point. The SSDI is available on a lot of different websites. Some sites update their data more often. You can also search by different criteria at the different sites, so it's worth checking out the differents sites that have the SSDI. Lisa ----- Original Message ----- From: "arleen gould" <[email protected]> To: "Lisa Lepore" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 09, 2010 7:16 PM Subject: Re: [COOK-CO-IL] Death of a Prisoner Don't just rely on the SSDI that is on ancestry. My friend's brother died and he has never been listed there but we looked at footnote.com and found all the info. Ar On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Lisa Lepore <[email protected]> wrote: > There's no doubt the SSDI is missing a lot of people. I'm sure there are > transciption errors, and missing batches of data that were not input > correctly, > just like every other database. > > But, I was trying to point out that technically, it should appear there, > once > the person was reported to have died. If the person is not there it is > more > likely due to an error, rather than the fact that the person in question > is/was > a death row inmate. > > Unfortunately the SSDI is far from perfect. > > Lisa >