Social Security Death Index - SSDI

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Ancestry offers you the most powerful and up to date Social Security Death Index on the Internet! Best of all, the collection is available FREE for Ancestry.com subscribers and guests. The database is current contains millions and millions of records.

Ancestry's Social Security Death Index is generated from the U.S. Social Security Administrations Death Master File. It contains the records of deceased persons who possessed Social Security numbers and whose death had been reported to the SSA. In most cases a report of death was made in connection with Social Security death benefits.

After doing a SSDI search you have the option to request information directly from the search page with a free trial of the service.

Detailed information about Social Security is available at the official web site of the Social Security Administration with information on retirement, disability, survivors and supplemental security income benefits.