From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Apr 2 18:14:20 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k330EKjb009314; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:14:20 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k330ER5X005367 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 18:14:27 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k32LhoFI027848 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:43:50 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k32Lhn8w027847 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 17:43:49 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k32Be9FI026619 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 07:40:09 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k32EAYjP014682 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:10:34 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JYoung6180@aol.com Sun Apr 2 08:10:33 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k32EAXjb014671 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:10:33 -0600 Received: from imo-d05.mx.aol.com (imo-d05.mx.aol.com [205.188.157.37]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k32EAeOp016214 for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 08:10:40 -0600 Received: from JYoung6180@aol.com by imo-d05.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.3.) id e.2c7.6b15756 (4328) for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:11:27 -0400 (EDT) From: JYoung6180@aol.com Message-ID: <2c7.6b15756.3161358f@aol.com> Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2006 10:11:27 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5021 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: SSDI Need contact for SSA The way I understood it, was that the Social Security Department would not make corrections on the death index, but you can go to the "tools" column and click on "add Post-em" and make a note about your correction. That way an interested party would have the information and a contact person. ----- SSA WILL make corrections if there are significant errors in the SSDI. The errors shouldn't be reported to RootsWeb or Ancestry or whichever website hosts the SSDI, but must be made by the family/heirs/representatives to SSA. The errors will be corrected in the next monthly update to the SSDI. Adding a Post-em note is a good idea if you have any comment/correction/addition to make to an SSDI entry, and it does help future researchers who access the record--but it doesn't correct the SSA's records. I'm assuming here, of course, that you are talking about an actual error in the record--such as John Smith died in March2006 and not January 2006 if that is what you found in the SSDI. SSA wouldn't change the Last Residence entry to agree with where the deceased individual lived at the time of death if the entry they have on file is correct based on what "last residence" actually means--which I've explained previously and Fred just gave a great example of. It can it can be a different place than you would expect--i.e. a family member taking care of finances for an elderly relative (perhaps acting as Representative Payee for his benefit check). Joan