Carolyn, This may not help much but the SSDI is only from around 1961 or so to the present. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: <Carolyn_Greene@hgsi.com> To: <NJHUDSON-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 9:51 AM Subject: [NJHUDSON-L] Need help finding death record > I need help finding the death record and/or burial place for my > grandfather, John Joseph Rooney. According to my mother he died in 1948 in > Jersey City. For the past 7 years I have tried to locate this event in > several ways: > > - Writing the Dept of Health and Senior Services in Trenton using the > years 1946-1949 looking both in Hudson and Union Co. > - Searching the Social Security Death Index. > - Writing the Hudson Co. Surrogate Court for probate records. > - Writing and calling the cemeteries where his family are buried. > - Obtaining military records. > > He was born in 1894 in Jersey City and as far as I can tell he lived all of > his life there. He served in the Navy during WWI and was perhaps > discharged dishonorably after a string of offenses such as smoking and > being AWOL (much of his records were blacked out because I am not "next of > kin"). He was married in 1919 in Jersey City, but later separated from his > wife. I know he was living in Jersey City in 1946 according to his > father's probate records. He was about 54 when he died supposedly of an > accidental fall so he may not have received any Social Security benefits. > > If he died in another county or state from where he lived would his death > record and probate records be kept there (he may not have had a will)? Is > there another source I have over looked? Any suggestions appreciated!!! > > Carolyn > > ______________________________