For those of you with access to Ancestry.com, they just expanded the info they have from the Social Security Death Index. They now have the place of birth and the names of the parents. This appears to be the additional information from the original SS5 applications that the original index did not provide. Larry Lanzaro

​It is not an expansion of the SSDI database. It is a totally different database of applications and claims filed with Social Security. It is a much smaller database than the SSDI, but it contains a lot more genealogy information, including in many cases birthplaces, parents' names, and name changes (e.g., after a marriage). I have located a number of people in the new database who, though dead, are not listed in the SSDI, because they died before the SSDI was established in the early 1960s. Also, though you cannot do searches on maiden names in the SSDI, you can do so in the new database. The name of the new database is "U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007." It's a very useful database. It's helped me break through brick walls for several people I am researching. Mark Lomax Pasadena, CA On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 1:44 PM, Larry Lanzaro via <nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com> wrote: > For those of you with access to Ancestry.com, they just expanded the info > they have from the Social Security Death Index. They now have the place of > birth and the names of the parents. This appears to be the additional > information from the original SS5 applications that the original index did > not provide. > > Larry Lanzaro > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > NYBROOKLYN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Thanks very much, Larry. This is great news! Glad to see you posting after such a longtime. Take care, Barb -----Original Message----- From: Larry Lanzaro via <nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com> To: Joyce via Presnall <nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, Jul 31, 2015 4:45 pm Subject: [BKLYN] SSDI on Ancestry.com For those of you with access to Ancestry.com, they just expanded the info they have from the Social Security Death Index. They now have the place of birth and the names of the parents. This appears to be the additional information from the original SS5 applications that the original index did not provide. Larry Lanzaro ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NYBROOKLYN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message