In a message dated 2/11/2006 10:38:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, cookiebrown11@gmail.com writes: My uncle died in 76 and his is in there. By 1976 the records were digitized and you can expect to find most (but not all) deaths listed there. Deaths prior to 1962 or thereabouts are often not found in the SSDI even if the person's death was reported to SSA. Joan