In a message dated 9/10/2006 1:39:44 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: If you have an Ancestery.com membership you can get the info from the Social Security Death Index a lot of times. Anyone can search the SSDI for free from the RootsWeb side whether or not they have an Ancestry subscription. Start here: http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ Joan