I discovered something today that is interesting. I know most of us know these days you have access to the SSDI on diferent sites on the web ,like Ancestry and FTM online. Many of us also have the Cd's from family tree maker. This may be old news but Rootsweb has gone one step further with the Social Security Death Index on there web page. For starters theres goes to July 1999 and is updated monthly! Then it not only has a link to print out a letter to SS but also lets you leave a postem note for other researchers to see that are looking for that same person. Gerald Varner http://www.rootsweb.com/