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How to Use Social Security Death Records to Retrieve Death Certificates

Social security death records play a valuable role in providing the proper service for people looking for specific documents for special reasons. At some point in every person’s life, they have encountered the death of a loved one while he or she was far away from that certain someone. You might wish to see for yourself what the cause of death was as determined by the medical authorities on the death certificate. Or, you may be curious about your lineage and have chosen to look up your genealogy in terms of public records.

It was through the government’s initiative, after seeing the necessity for public access to social security death records, that the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) was founded. Social security death records are your best bet in looking for an MCCD or medical certificate of the cause of death.

Due to its effective database, the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) can help make it easier for you to locate the death records that you need.

Through this, certain online websites allow you to locate the death certificate that you need by simply typing in the necessary information that is asked, like the deceased person’s first and last names, birth date, as well as the city and state where the person resided or just fill up the required fields that are indicated. Click the SEARCH button and chances are, you’ll get what you are looking for.

Should you be in search of a death certificate that existed since the establishment of the SSDI system, then you will most likely be able to get a hold of it. On the other hand, if it is a death certificate that was existent prior to the creation of SSDI, its good database will still provide you with a moderate possibility that you will find the certificate you are looking for. Since the SDDI boasts of an extensive compilation of information on recorded deaths, you can rest assured that searching for a loved one’s death record will be a whole lot easier than going outside the comfort of your home to a public records building to go looking for the document manually.
Social security death records serve as a great source of necessary documents. Such information can contain the specific details of where and when the deceased passed away. The information will also tell you about the burial date and location of the dead person’s coffin. The cause of death appears in the death record of a person as an additional detail which is quite valuable in criminal investigations.

Manually searching for a death record will consume loads of time and can also be tiring on your part. Flipping through files in file cabinets of social security death records while searching for the particular document can be tiresome. Thankfully, Social Security Death-Records has a database of more than 400 million public records to help you search for important death records. Try it for yourself and visit SocialSecurityDeath-Records.com now!

Stephen P. Morse – One Step Genealogical Search

Often times when searching genealogical records from any given “large” database site it can be easy to get lost or not find what you KNOW should be there because of the search tools that are provided to search the site.

Stephen Morse has an incredible site he calls “A One Step Portal for On-Line Genealogy” on which he has built some very advanced search pages to search the following records:

Ellis Island, Other Ports, US Census, Canada/UK Census, New York Census, Vital Records, Calendars, Maps, etc., Foreign Alphabets, Holoc & East Europe, Genetics (DNA), Creating your own Search Applications

And More…  bookmark this one and make sure to read the How to Use this site file he has.

Even if you have searched some of the sites on your own you may want to consider giving it a try again, especially if you have come up “blank” in the past and feel confident that your ancestor should be listed.

Happy Trails..

FamilySearch Update: 9 Million New Records Plus New Indexing Projects

FamilySearch has updated or added three new free databases this week to its online pilot program at http://pilot.familysearch.org. The new additions represent over 9 million new names.  There are now over 477 million searchable names on the pilot site.

Current indexing projects include the 1920 U.S Census, 1869 Argentina Census, 1930 Mexico Census, 1945 Florida State Census, Louisiana Deaths, German Church Records, Italy Church Records, Spain Church Records, Venezuela Church Records, and Nicaragua Civil Registration Records.

Newly-added records include:

1870 U.S. Federal Census

Thirteen  new states and almost 9 million names were added to the free 1870 U.S. Census index online. Indexes are now available for Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Dakota Territory, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Utah, Vermont, Washington, and Wyoming. Digital images can be searched for all states except Kentucky, Vermont, and Virginia.

West Virginia Births Index

A searchable name index for West Virginia Births for 1853 to 1930 has been added. This project includes 220,000 names and is 76% complete. For a list of counties indexed in the collection to-date, see the project description at http://pilot.famlysearch.org.  No images currently.

West Virginia Deaths Index

The West Virginia Deaths Index 1853 to 1870 is now available online. Over 266,00 names were added, and it is 80% complete. This is an index of both statewide and county death records. A link to digital images on the West Virginia Division of Culture and History website is provided from the index.

The following article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com

FamilySearch Update: New Records Added

FamilySearch added over 2 million new images or indexed records this week to its pilot Record Search databases this week. Thanks to all of the wonderful volunteers who help bring these projects to the Web for public access. Patrons can search these databases for free online at FamilySearch.org or directly at http://pilot.familysearch.org.

Project Name Indexed Records Digital Images Type Comments
WWII Draft Reg. Cards

1,651,453

Images Updated – 1 new state (Ohio)
1930 Mexico Census

314,548

104,849

Index Updated – 1 new state (Coahulia)
West Virginia Vital Records (Marriages)

306,782

Index Updated – 14 new counties
Lima, Peru Civil Registration

134,664

Waypt Updated – User guidance added
1885 FL State Census

8,468

Waypt New collection
1935 FL State Census

36,019

Waypt New collection
1945 FL State Census

51,686

Waypt New collection

The following article is from Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter and is copyright by Richard W. Eastman. It is re-published here with the permission of the author. Information about the newsletter is available at http://www.eogn.com.