Gene Phillips just sent ne this info: [thanks, Gene!] "I think they would have had to die after 1939. Here's an interesting story about Ida May Fuller, the first person to draw social security benefits. From what I understand, you had to die while drawing benefits or leave benefits to a survivor. Since she was the first person to draw a social security check in Jan 1940, noone would have died while drawing social security before that date. http://www.ssa.gov/history/imf.html Gene Lanita I'm always late. My ancestors arrived on the JUNE flower.