Thank you. Don't have a social security number, or know if nobody filed. But the information helps clear up a muddy situation. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Judith Heald" <jheald@pennswoods.net> To: <paclearf@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 6:31 AM Subject: [PACLEARF] social security > My Dad was a Dairy farmer who died in 1966. When I looked for his Social > Security Death Index in 2000+ I could not locate it. I finally went > backwards using his SS# and called Social Security. After proving that I > was indeed his daughter, they told me no one had ever filed for benefits. > Apparently my Mom, thinking that because he was self employed, did not > have > a SS # (as it was not required for the self-employed then), never filed > for > benefits. For some strange reason even the lawyer missed it. The > benefits > to Mom would probably been minimal, but no filing was even done, therefore > it is NOT in the system. So - if no one files for benefits - I don't > believe you will find it in the system! > > Judy > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PACLEARF-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message