SSA-721 is the Social Security form "Statement of Death by Funeral Director." "Neptune Soc" is the Neptune Society, a cremation society. On Fri, Jul 31, 2015 at 9:42 PM, Albert L. Bailey <k8six@comcast.net> wrote: > Thank You Thank You Thank You > > I was able to determine from these records that both my cousins in NY are > deceased and when they passed away. I was also able to determine her > married name. SO now for the hunt for any family. I know she had at least > one daughter. > > This site is amazing. > > BTW Her record has a Death Certificate Number which says, "SSA721 NEPTUNE > SOC". Anybody have an idea what that is and if it will help at all? > > Now I won't be able to sleep tonight. :) :) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: nybrooklyn-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto: > nybrooklyn-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mark Lomax via > Sent: Friday, July 31, 2015 7:57 PM > To: nybrooklyn@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BKLYN] SSDI on Ancestry.com > > ​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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > >