"G. M. Lupo" <deaconblues@steelyspam.org> wrote: > wrote...Snip > > : Do you know your grandfather's Social Security number? You might > : want to send for a copy of his Social Security card application > : (form SS-5 > > As far as I can tell, he never had an SSN or didn't use it. I've > checked the SSDI and that's how I found his ex-wife, but he died in > 1950 and it doesn't look like SSNs were as common place at that > point as they've become. My guess is he never registered for one. If he was employed in the 1940s and 1950s he definitely had a Social Security number. He could not have been employed without one then, unless it was off of the books, which is unlikely at such newspapers as the Dallas Morning News and the Atlanta Journal. Not everyone who died with Social Security is listed in the Social Security Death Index. You might check for union records. Typographers, I think, had a pretty strong union then. Janey Joyce <jejoyce@sbcglobal.net>