The government gutted the SSDI and as of the updates issued after they took their action many of the deaths were removed. It isn't nearly as valuable a resource as it once was. Joan In a message dated 7/14/2012 5:39:24 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, jbletch@aol.com writes: If Ancestry took the Social Security index off of RootsWeb simply because the government might pass the bill pertaining to the Social security index, then why is it still on Ancestry?