Ruth, Thanks for the post on the SSDI. It is a good tool, but as I have discovered in the past few days, it is common to assume everyone has a social security card. Now days kids have one shortly after birth. But as in my case of looking, the older the individual, especially females, did not have social security numbers. They did not work outside the home and did not need one. An example is my mother who died in 1966. She was working for my grandfather in his garage as his bookeeper and did not pay taxes because she was paid in cash. She did have a social security number, but it is not on the SSDI because she/nor survivors recieved any benefits. I looked for my father on there for 6 months before I finally found him quite by accident. It was not listed under his name but simply under an initial. Again Ruth, Thanks for Sharing. Sheila