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• American Ancestors - United States: Social Security Death Index, 1935-2012 ^FREE

• Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 $

  "This database picks up where the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) leaves off by providing more details than those included in the SSDI. It includes information filed with the Social Security Administration through the application or claims process, including valuable details such as birth date, birth place, and parents

• Ancestry.com - U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014

  Searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images available with fee-based subscription. Original source: Social Security Administration. Social Security Death Index, Master File. Social Security Administration.

  • Ancestry Support - The Social Security Death Index

• Download Social Security Death Master File free

  Download the entire Death Master File (30 November 2011) free.

• FamilySearch - United States Social Security Death Index ^FREE

  Name index to deaths recorded by the Social Security Administration beginning in 1962. Current as of February 28, 2014.

• FamilySearch - United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), 1936-2007 ^FREE

  The Social Security Administration created these records to track the earnings of US workers and determine benefit entitlements. The publishable index only contains information for deceased individuals and was gathered from all three record types in the collection: applications, deaths, and claims. Each compiled record includes fields for the name of the deceased, social security number, parents' names, gender, birth city and state or country, birth date, and death date.

  • FamilySearch Wiki - United States, Social Security Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT) - FamilySearch Historical Records

• Findmypast - Social Security Death Index

  Discover relatives who have died between 1900 and 2012 in the Social Security Death Index (SSDI). This index covers all fifty states and Puerto Rico.

• GenealogyBank.com - Search Social Security Death Index ^FREE

• MyHeritage - U.S. Social Security Death Index (SSDI)

  Free search of Social Security Death Records (SSDI). The source of this data is the Social Security Administration (SSA) Death Master File (DMF), which contains over 80 million records of deaths that have been reported to SSA. This file includes the following information on each deceased person, as applicable: name, date of birth, date of death, state or country of residence (prior to Mar 1988), and ZIP code of last residence.

• NARA - AAD - Numerical Identification Files (NUMIDENT), created, 1936 - 2007, documenting the period 1936 - 2007

  From the U.S. National Archives, Access to Archival Databases (AAD). This series contains records for every social security number (SSN) assigned to individuals with a verified death or who would have been over 110 years old by December 31, 2007. There are three type of entries in NUMIDENT: application (SS-5), claim, and death records. A NUMIDENT record may contain more than one entry. NUMIDENT includes information regarding any subsequent changes made to the applicant's record, including name changes and life or death claims. The death records in NUMIDENT do not include any State reported deaths in accordance with the Social Security Act section 205(r).

  • NARA - AAD - FAQs - Numerical Identification (NUMIDENT) Files Record Group 47

• One-Step Webpages by Stephen P. Morse

  Alternate search functions for many online databases. Includes tools for immigration, census, vital records, calendars, soundex, foreign alphabets, Jewish and Holocaust research.

  • Decoding Social Security Numbers in One Step (for numbers issued prior to June 25, 2011)

  • Searching the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) in One Step

• Reclaim the Records - Social Security Applications and Claims Index

  In September, 2017, Reclaim The Records made a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for a copy of what is colloquially called the Social Security Applications and Claims Index from the United States Social Security Administration. The current estimated completion date for this request is July 13, 2018.

• Search the Social Security Death Index on DonsList

  DonsList.net has added a full featured search of the Social Security Death Master File current as of November 2011.

• Social Security Death Master File, free

  Sorted by birth date, and by number. This is a privately owned genealogy website using a purchased copy of the Social Security Death Master File. This site uses the Death Master File edition of 30 November 2011.

• Sorted By Birth Date

  Contents of the Social Security Death Master File and several state-wide voter lists, sorted by birth date and then by first name, allowing the finding of a re-married aunt.

• Sorted By Date

  Contents of the Social Security Death Master File and several state-wide voter lists, sorted by birth date and then by first name, allowing the finding of a re-married aunt. Over 140 million entries sorted by date of birth, death or another event.