In a message dated 9/10/2006 1:39:38 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. The only bad thing about that is if there are more than one person with the same name....unless you know at least part of the date or SS # it is hard to tell if you have the You can freely get this information at rootsweb <G> which is nice. Different ways to search and that can help a lot. Eliz