This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/ZFB.2ACI/4038.1 Message Board Post: The city or town named in the Social Security Death Index is the last address known to the Social Security Administration. The SSDI never gives the place of death. I do not know if going to one of their offices and begging for the place of death will be effective. However, there is a team of civil servants in each state sitting around waiting for genealogists to request death certificates. The addresses of the vital records offices are online at : http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/howto/w2w/w2welcom.htm Reg Niles