A person can also be found by using first name if yoou have a birthdate. This is very interesting and certainly pertains to genealogy. I have a person who is missing since 1978. She would only be 56/57 years old today. She was married in California and no one has heard of her since. She may be divorced and remarried. She can't be found by either maiden or married name. Her husband also seems to be impossible to find as well, so we can't ask him. One person showed up in the SSDI with her first name and exact birth date. But this means nothing. She's still a young woman and the likelihood is she's still alive somewhere, using a different surname. Can she be declared dead? What if she's not, and is declared dead? Kevin, do you know the Statute of Limitations in California?