Hi Barb, I canot find my grandfather Rupert MacPhee who died 1932. Lawrence -----Original Message----- From: nova-scotia-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:nova-scotia-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Bob Hegerich Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 4:21 PM To: Barbara Meredith; lunen-links-l Cc: NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NS-L] [LL] Are All Death Records on line? Hi Barb: I expect that all the death records are online, but it doesn't necessarily follow that there was a record, that the name(s) was spelled correctly in the record, and/or that the record(s) you are looking for were properly indexed. :-) I have encountered a number of records that I think should be there but don't seem to be, but also people whose names were badly transcribed or females who remarried and died under a name I didn't previously know about. Have you tried being creative with the "Starts With" and/or "Contains" controls--I have rarely used the "Exactly" control. -----Bob H----- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Meredith" <barbmeredith@gmail.com> To: "lunen-links-l" <LUNEN-LINKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:12 PM Subject: [LL] Are All Death Records on line? > Hello, I know that they say that death records are available from 1908 > to 1955 - but are there other people who are having trouble finding > information of deaths? I know my grandmother Annie Frances Fralic/k > or Frelick, died on > the 20th of March 1931 and that record should be there - but it isn't!!! > Are others having this problem? I can't find my ggrandmother's record > either and she died in 1942. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. However, I expect that I will > probably have to go back to the funeral home microfich in my hometown > archives. > > Thanks, > Barb in Alberta > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LUNEN-LINKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/759 - Release Date: 4/12/2007 > 7:58 PM > > ---------------------------------------- Basic List Commands: 1. To post to the list Send a message to: NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com 2. How to unsubscribe a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word unsubscribe b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- request@rootsweb.com that contains only the word unsubscribe 3. How to subscribe Send an email containing only the word subscribe to NOVA-SCOTIA-L-request@rootsweb.com 4. How to change to Digest mode a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) b. Subscribe to Digest mode Send an email containing only the word subscribe to NOVA-SCOTIA-D-request@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOVA-SCOTIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Cathy Naugle wrote: > Hi Barb, > > I canot find my grandfather Rupert MacPhee who died 1932. > > Lawrence How did he supposedly die? If he was drowned at sea his death may not be recorded.

Shirley wrote: > Bob I have had several that I couldn't find but later discovered the > person went by another name ie I spent some line looking for Esther and > because I knew the name of her husband I went at it from that direction > only to find that she was refered to as Hester and sure enough when I > went to the death records she was there under that name. I have also > found that the individual used what I had thought was a middle name Then try given name _contains_ "ester" of if you know a person is often called by given and middle try both. bob gillis

Bob Hegerich wrote: >> Hello, I know that they say that death records are available from 1908 to >> 1955 - but are there other people who are having trouble finding >> information >> of deaths? I know my grandmother Annie Frances Fralic/k or Frelick, died >> on >> the 20th of March 1931 and that record should be there - but it isn't!!! >> Are others having this problem? I can't find my ggrandmother's record >> either and she died in 1942. I do not find anything for a surnmae starts with Fr and given starts with An in 1931. What is the source of your death data: date and place where she supposedly died? And what was your grandmother's name? bob gillis

Hi Barb: I expect that all the death records are online, but it doesn't necessarily follow that there was a record, that the name(s) was spelled correctly in the record, and/or that the record(s) you are looking for were properly indexed. :-) I have encountered a number of records that I think should be there but don't seem to be, but also people whose names were badly transcribed or females who remarried and died under a name I didn't previously know about. Have you tried being creative with the "Starts With" and/or "Contains" controls--I have rarely used the "Exactly" control. -----Bob H----- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Meredith" <barbmeredith@gmail.com> To: "lunen-links-l" <LUNEN-LINKS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, April 14, 2007 3:12 PM Subject: [LL] Are All Death Records on line? > Hello, I know that they say that death records are available from 1908 to > 1955 - but are there other people who are having trouble finding > information > of deaths? I know my grandmother Annie Frances Fralic/k or Frelick, died > on > the 20th of March 1931 and that record should be there - but it isn't!!! > Are others having this problem? I can't find my ggrandmother's record > either and she died in 1942. > > Any suggestions would be appreciated. However, I expect that I will > probably have to go back to the funeral home microfich in my hometown > archives. > > Thanks, > Barb in Alberta > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LUNEN-LINKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/759 - Release Date: 4/12/2007 > 7:58 PM > >

Would you have any idea where I may find info on a Ralph Conrad? Story goes that he was badly burned on a rum runner in 1931-32, set adrift and landed in New Glasgow suffering from amnesia. We know after several months he was reunited with his family. He was caretaker of the old town clock in Halifax amd then moved to Vancouver Island. The info we really need is the rum runner days where the incident was, we believe, run in a local newspaper with the caption "Do you know this man" Any info would be gratefully appreciated. Does anyone on the list have information on this man?? Thanks, Sue

Hi Lawrence, Which info? The record can be found here: Anna Haley and Daniel Mirling married 1874 in Cape Breton County Registration Year: 1874 - Book: 1804 - Page: 92 - Number: 102 https://www.novascotiagenealogy.com/ItemView.aspx?ImageFile=1804-92&Event=marriage&ID=9029 Kevin -- http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~podgursky/ On 4/14/07, Cathy Naugle <cjnaugle@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote: > Hi List, > Looking for information on Anna Haley m. 27 Apr 1874 Glace Bay to Daniel > Mirling. > > Thanks > Lawrence >

Hi List, Looking for information on Anna Haley m. 27 Apr 1874 Glace Bay to Daniel Mirling. Thanks Lawrence

hi thats a typo on my part 'he retired in 1956, although it could be 1958?' thanks for picking it up [however he wasnt the Roy Marsh i was looking for] --------------- Judy Myatt wrote: > I just don't think it possible that he retired in 1978 if he died in 1967. > >> -----Original Message----- >> Subject: [NS-L] MARSH, Roy - d. Jan 3, 1967 NS >> >> Wednesday, January 4, 1967...The Mail-Star, Halifax, N.S. >> ROY MARSH >> Roy Marsh - 78, of 27 Albro Lake Road, died yesterday at the Halifax >> County Hospital after a long illness. >> Born in Ferlon Falls, Ont., he lived in Dartmouth for 18 years. >> Mr. Marsh retired in 1978. >> Surviving are his wife, May; one daughter, Violet, Los Angeles; >> one brother, William, Woodwell, Ont., and two sisters. >> The body is at Mattatall's Funeral Home, where funeral service will be >> held Thursday at 3 p.m., Rev. Earl Ward officating. >> Interment will be in Mount Hermon Cemetery.

That is correct. When my husband died in 1992, we were traveling across country in our Motorhome. We had a Mail Forwarding Service out of Cleveland, Ohio. My husband died in Nevada, and I brought him home to Buffalo, NY for burial. The social security index shows the Ohio address, much to my consternation. I have added a note to the site, but am not really sure what good that does. In a message dated 4/13/2007 3:59:08 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, bobh36@cox.net writes: One slight correction, if I may. What appears in the SSDI is not the place of death, but rather the place the last SS check was mailed to, which is presumed to be (but isn't necessarily) that person's residence :-) ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.

To all -- As of now, the latest percentages for the three remaining provinces are as follows:- CANADA is transcribed 96.77% ALBERTA...............................78.26% BRITISH COLUMBIA.............78.86% SASKATCHEWAN..................87.08% Staff at Automated Genealogy had estimated, some time ago, all of Canada would be completed by March and then April. Personally, with the handwriting we are encountering, I am hoping for July 1! I have copied this to the NOVA-SCOTIA list -- the first to be 100%, and should any subscribers like to become transcribers, please let me know -- I already have 10 from United States assisting us - thanks! Several new transcribers have contacted me the past few days and I will be happy to answer any questions -- there are many answers at Frequently Asked Questions at the following URLs. http://automatedgenealogy.com/census11/ http://automatedgenealogy.com/index.html Let's get the 1911 census finished! Muriel M. Davidson muriel_davidson@sympatico.ca Co-Chair, Canada Census Committee Brampton, ON

Wednesday, January 4, 1967...The Mail-Star, Halifax, N.S. ROY MARSH Roy Marsh - 78, of 27 Albro Lake Road, died yesterday at the Halifax County Hospital after a long illness. Born in Ferlon Falls, Ont., he lived in Dartmouth for 18 years. Mr. Marsh retired in 1978. Surviving are his wife, May; one daughter, Violet, Los Angeles; one brother, William, Woodwell, Ont., and two sisters. The body is at Mattatall's Funeral Home, where funeral service will be held Thursday at 3 p.m., Rev. Earl Ward officating. Interment will be in Mount Hermon Cemetery.

Many are right about SSI and last payment, it often messes up the process to change the direct deposit, and many banks like stores are chains. Often people will stick with the original bank rather than wait for a change of banking process which isn’t confusing to the bank but SSI is and other story. You’ll often find persons last payment may have been RI but died in FL or some other state. Many people travel to warmer climates for the winter but return north for the summer often its 6 months each area. Some are more comfortable with a bank they have been with for many years and others have a family member who forwards prepaid checks to a family member there are many ways for this to work. Even with your cell phone your calls still go to the same number out of state, many do this. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/759 - Release Date: 4/12/2007 7:58 PM

Toni, Thank you for replying. I have done everything you suggested. I have not been able to track my Grandmother's parents or Grandparents, as I do not have their names. I know my Grandfather immigrated to Nova Scotia, and my Grand Mother immigrated to Massachusetts. I have not been able to uncover where they were married. I was able to trace my Grandmother's birth to Massachusetts, along with her siblings. I have also been able to track her through the US census until her first marriage. During the first divorce she was granted her maiden name (Williams) however she used both her married name and maiden name at different times. (I have both the marriage records and the divorce records, she lost custody of her 4 children, one of them being my mother whom is still living. I found her second marriage quite by accident, and have also gotten copies of her marriage certificate as well as the divorce proceedings. Nothing is said about changing her name back to her maiden name (Williams, or her first Married name Wright or keeping her second married name, Schoonover.) I have searched everywhere I can think of and have hit a dead end. I have not a clue as to where to look next. any suggestions? Ellen ----- Original Message ----- From: Trena<mailto:amheater@cogeco.ca> To: nova-scotia@rootsweb.com<mailto:nova-scotia@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 5:48 PM Subject: Re: [NS-L] SSDI ----- Original Message ----- From: "esparklin SPARKLIN" Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: [NS-L] SSDI >I am always amazed at the wealth of information various people have. Now I >have a question that is related to the SSDI. I am still searching for my >Grandmother. I have found 2 marriages for her. However, that is where the >trail stops. I found her birth, her parents, her sister and brother's >birth in NS, however how can I track her only knowing her dob and not the >name she died under? Thanks to all for the help! Do you know when and where she died? Do you know for sure if she was married twice? Have you sent for the two marriage certs? Both ought to have a maiden name on them. If the marriage certs are for the same woman, her former/previous married name should also be on the second cert. If you do not know the name she died under, how do you know her maiden name? What surname is on your parent's (particular grandmother's child) birth cert? You really need to start with yourself, then go to your parent's death if they have passed on, their marriage, then their birth. Only then do you go on to their parents'/your grandparents'. Toni ~ Ontario ---------------------------------------- Basic List Commands: 1. To post to the list Send a message to: NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com<mailto:NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com> 2. How to unsubscribe a. List mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-L- request@rootsweb.com<mailto:request@rootsweb.com> that contains only the word unsubscribe b. Digest mode: Send a message to NOVA-SCOTIA-D- request@rootsweb.com<mailto:request@rootsweb.com> that contains only the word unsubscribe 3. How to subscribe Send an email containing only the word subscribe to NOVA-SCOTIA-L-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NOVA-SCOTIA-L-request@rootsweb.com> 4. How to change to Digest mode a. Unsubscribe from List mode (2.a. above) b. Subscribe to Digest mode Send an email containing only the word subscribe to NOVA-SCOTIA-D-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NOVA-SCOTIA-D-request@rootsweb.com> ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NOVA-SCOTIA-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:NOVA-SCOTIA-request@rootsweb.com> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

----- Original Message ----- From: "esparklin SPARKLIN" Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: [NS-L] SSDI >I am always amazed at the wealth of information various people have. Now I >have a question that is related to the SSDI. I am still searching for my >Grandmother. I have found 2 marriages for her. However, that is where the >trail stops. I found her birth, her parents, her sister and brother's >birth in NS, however how can I track her only knowing her dob and not the >name she died under? Thanks to all for the help! Do you know when and where she died? Do you know for sure if she was married twice? Have you sent for the two marriage certs? Both ought to have a maiden name on them. If the marriage certs are for the same woman, her former/previous married name should also be on the second cert. If you do not know the name she died under, how do you know her maiden name? What surname is on your parent's (particular grandmother's child) birth cert? You really need to start with yourself, then go to your parent's death if they have passed on, their marriage, then their birth. Only then do you go on to their parents'/your grandparents'. Toni ~ Ontario

----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Hegerich" Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 3:58 PM Subject: Re: [NS-L] U.S. DEATH INDEX > One slight correction, if I may. What appears in the SSDI is not the > place > of death, but rather the place the last SS check was mailed to, which is > presumed to be (but isn't necessarily) that person's residence :-) Quite! My grand-aunt & uncle, both born in NS, were living in Florida in their retirement, after residing most of their married/working life in CT. He died in Florida, and indications were she did as well. Then, her SSDI info made it seem as though she actually died in CT. Several months ago, I tracked down and spoke with both her aged children. Grand-aunt died in Atlanta GA, where son lives. She's buried in CT, as is her husband, where their daughter lives. Toni ~ Ontario

My grandfather and some of his family and friends worked for the RR and there is no listing anywhere in the SSI for them. They retired by the RR retirement fund which they had paid into all throughout the years. I can find them through a RR web site and that is it, it states when he started and retired and that is all one can find on him. Except for the pocket watch they gave him when he retired which didn't thrill him since they had stopped using pocket watches many a year before he retired. He worked for the RR since he was 16 years old. If the person worked for the Railroad in the US, they are included in Social Security and would be included in the SSDI, provided the death was reported to Social Security. From its inception in the US in 1936-37, a special block of numbers in the Social Security system was reserved for Railroad employees. For Railroad workers, the first three digits of the SSN would be in the 700s. This applies until sometime in the 1960s, I believe. It is the US Railroad Retirement Board that administered the Social Security benefits paid to Railroad workers. When you check the SSDI and find that person's name, it will be noted that they were a long-time or retired Railroad employee. You will be able to click on a link and fill out a form to receive a copy of the person's original application for Social Security (for a small fee). If you go to the website for the US Railroad Retirement Board, there is a link to print/fill out a form to receive copies of their employment and retirement records (the fee is $27). It takes about 2 months to receive these records, but the time waiting, and the $27 fee, were well worth it for the information I got recently. It helps if you have the person's SSN, but they can do a search without it if you have the person's birth/death dates. The Railroad Retirement Board's website gives a very clear explanation of whose records you are likely to find, or not to find. I missed the original posting to the list on this topic, so I hope my response above was relevent. Eileen -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.446 / Virus Database: 269.4.0/759 - Release Date: 4/12/2007 7:58 PM

esparklin SPARKLIN wrote: I cannot quote ellen's message as I think she sent the body of the message in html. You should always send messages to rootsweb in plain text. You can search the SSDI at http://stevemorse.org/ssdi/ssdi.html using just a first name and birth date. bob gillis

I hope this reply comes though with the complete lines of Winston's message. winston crawford wrote:s. > Anyone that has a Social Security number (fewer in the past but virtually everyone who is a legal alien or citizen today) gets a number based on where they were living when they originally filed for benefits. The number is based on where the person lived when they signed up for Social Security. Iit is not whera person lived when filing for benefits when he/she retired. bob gillis > For example, Midwest folks, like me, have numbers that were issued out of the Chicago region and they start with the number 3. West cost and California start with 5, the Atlanta region with 4. etc. It does not tell you where they lived state wise but what region of the country they were in when they filed for the card. As they are now done at birth almost exclusively, they will be an indication of family location in the future. > And, yes. The 700 numbers were originally issued to rail road workers back in the 30s and 40s. They had to be working for the rail road when the number was issued but did not always stay there. They are now using the 700s again and I think that they are now used for some aliens who come to this country but will not be permanent residents. That changed about the time that I retired so they may have refined that some since then. This stuff changes almost daily sometimes. Hard to keep up when you are no longer part of the machine. > > Now, as for the death index, any one who has a number and dies, that death is recorded by the funeral director and passed on to Social Security. Always!!!! The death is recorded on the system and the information is then posted to the death index. A person could never have worked, had a number for a bank account, for example, and would show up there. That will give you a name, location of death and a date. They up date that a couple times a year for the public even though it is updated daily for the governments purposes. If the individual had no Social Security number and died (almost never these days) and the information was reported to the government, it will not show up on that list as there was no number with which to associate the death. > Basically, it is a function that is used by Social Security to keep track of numbers and which are still in use. The fact that they share it with the public is an extra service and, pretty much, a gift. > Karen > --- Original Message ----- > From: Bob Hegerich > To: Wanda Powell ; NOVA-SCOTIA-L@rootsweb.com > Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 2:21 PM > Subject: Re: [NS-L] U.S. DEATH INDEX > > > Hi All: > > Just to add to the confusion. > > "Railroad workers were enrolled in the . . . Social Security program, but from 1937 to 1963 they had numbers ranging between 700 and 728 as the first three digits. In 1964 their numbers began to reflect the same geographic location as other workers. Some railroad workers received Social Security benefits, but some did not. However, it is wise to check the SSDI in any case. > > The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board was created in the 1930s, and has records dating back to 1937, but they exist only for those whose employers were covered under the Railroad Retirement Act." > > It seems to me that I recall finding Railroad Retirement Act workers who died before 1962 in the SSDI. 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Bob Hegerich wrote: > Hi All: > > Just to add to the confusion. > > "Railroad workers were enrolled in the . . . Social Security program, but from 1937 to 1963 they had numbers ranging between 700 and 728 as the first three digits. In 1964 their numbers began to reflect the same geographic location as other workers. Some railroad workers received Social Security benefits, but some did not. However, it is wise to check the SSDI in any case. > > The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board was created in the 1930s, and has records dating back to 1937, but they exist only for those whose employers were covered under the Railroad Retirement Act." > > It seems to me that I recall finding Railroad Retirement Act workers who died before 1962 in the SSDI. But I wouldn't bet the farm on it. > I suspect that the RRA workers were already in a computerized data base prior to Oct 1962 when the SSA started entering the deaths into the data base. > One slight correction, if I may. What appears in the SSDI is not the place > of death, but rather the place the last SS check was mailed to, which is > presumed to be (but isn't necessarily) that person's residence :-) The column which says last Residence is a AFAIK, the last residence that the SSA has for the decedent. My wife was administratrix for her aunt ho lived in Queens NYC and died in Manhattan, NYC bur R is show as Montclair NJ where we lived. There is a newly formed SSDI list on rootsweb. bob gillis