When a person is looking for someone and they cannot locate them through normal channels you can write a letter to Social Security and ask them to forward a letter that you have written to that person. You simply place the letter inside of the envelope with the correct postage and the name of the person and SS will forward the letter on if the person is still living. If that person is not living they can send it to the last known address but that is no guarantee that anyone will answer it. SS will not tell you the persons SS number and believe it or not if you go to any SS office and request a look up of that person they cannot tell you whether he /she is living and or dead unless you can show a death record. It doesn't matter how old that person would be if alive today. My husband had several uncles that we were searching for and I knew that they lived during the registration of SS numbers and later. I went to SS and requested a look up because I assumed that they were all dead. Well since I didn't have a death record to prove it the only thing the employee told me was that the first three numbers of his ss number which is the number for a state in which he registered but that didn't mean he was still living there. The employee was able to tell me that he did serve in World War I and so I would be able to trace him that way as he was a veteran who died and was buried in a National Cemetery. The other uncles although they served in the U.S. World War I they couldn't tell me about them because although they filed for SS numbers they could not give me any info on them as their deaths had not been reported. But in that one sentence it told me that the three remaining uncles were not living in the U.S. when they died as I had no death records for them to prove to SS that they were in fact dead. It didn't matter that these men were well in to their 110 birth yr. Social Security will not give you any info because of the new privacy laws unless you have a ss number and can prove to them how you are related. Jean From: "cgaetz" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:46 AM Subject: Re: [IL-CHICAGO] SSDI > Thanks Arlene, > Since I already know about this person, I was just really looking for the > year/place of death of his parents. I don't know why I thought perhaps the > death admin. would forward a letter onto the family for me. It was > something > I read several years ago that gave me that idea. Maybe I misunderstood at > the time. > Researching: Lawrence, Ackerman, Rudolph, Johnson > -Brenda > >> >> Brenda >> The SS5 gives the names of the parents but that is all. Also gives >> birthplace of applicant but that might just be a country. I have never >> heard of anyone trying to has SS forward a letter. >> Arleen >> > >> > >> > Hello list. Does the SSDI give the death dates of the parents >> > of a particular individual? What other information might I >> > glean from these files? I am trying to locate the death place >> > and location of the parents, but so far have had no luck. >> > Also, is one able to have the SS people forward a letter onto >> > a payee or not? Thank you, Brenda >> > >> > >> > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== >> > To unsubscribe: Send a message to >> > [email protected] >> > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe >> > >> > ============================== >> > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. >> > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn >> > more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >> > >> > -- >> > No virus found in this incoming message. >> > Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> > Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.0/248 - Release >> > Date: 2/1/2006 >> > >> > >> >> -- >> No virus found in this outgoing message. >> Checked by AVG Free Edition. >> Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.0/248 - Release Date: 2/1/2006 >> >> >> >> ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== >> To unsubscribe: Send a message to >> [email protected] >> that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe >> >> ============================== >> Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the >> last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >> > > > ==== IL-COOK-CHICAGO Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe: Send a message to > [email protected] > that contains (in the body of the message) the command unsubscribe > > ============================== > Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. > New content added every business day. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx > >