From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sun Sep 24 10:19:29 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 k8OGJTjb019923; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:19:29 -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 k8OGJ1H6030389 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 10:19:01 -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 k8ODb0FI023563 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:37:00 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k8ODb0mF023562 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:37:00 -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 k8OCQiFI022980 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:26:44 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k8OF8Y9J008966 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:08:34 -0600 X-Envelope-From: drewsmithtpa@gmail.com Sun Sep 24 09:08:34 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 k8OF8Yjb008957 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:08:34 -0600 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.236]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k8OF8Voe032225 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 09:08:32 -0600 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id t4so1601163wxc for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:08:33 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-mailer:x-mimeole:thread-index:in-reply-to; b=S5MNLmzlTzkIyrIbjZiJdaNAyhtc+KzypNg/KU7d1SG/fmHP7J7Woa5F2Ld355Wj/rcCwCNdooj7RYn1N5jUJlJ66Wd0XiST82+evW/1503O+5a4KD9E3ZYHmXKgKRMGww21NLLGnczcL8SXZQ7WC2KwVwH3zXm7qIiy3Zqd0Mk= Received: by 10.70.52.2 with SMTP id z2mr4724345wxz; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:08:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Drew ( [70.126.18.234]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id h35sm1881244wxd.2006.09.24.08.08.32; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 08:08:32 -0700 (PDT) From: "Drew Smith" To: Subject: RE: [ROOTS-L] Re: Julia C. Whaley Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 11:08:32 -0400 Message-ID: <00cc01c6dfeb$4cfdfc20$640fa8c0@Drew> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2962 thread-index: AcbfwP7o9DyAC9H7TkOt2dxFkuqbswAKflHg In-Reply-To: <001601c6dfab$8cc54ce0$6901a8c0@Chewbacca> 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 Sondra, While Joan is correct that *most* are (I was wrong about that earlier), I compared the statistics of the number of U.S. people who were 56 and died in 2003 (the latest year for which statistics have been published) and the number of individuals in the SSDI who were 56 when they died in 2003, and it's definitely not all. Drew > -----Original Message----- > From: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com > [mailto:roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Sondra Prowett > Sent: Sunday, September 24, 2006 3:32 AM > To: ROOTS-M@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ROOTS-L] Re: Julia C. Whaley > > Nowadays ALL deaths are normally reported to SSA to stop > fraud and identity theft of their SSN's. :) My children were > issued SSN's at birth and you can believe me that I would > report to SSA if they had died to keep their numbers being > used by somebody else. > S o n d r a > ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2006 4:53 PM > Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Julia C. Whaley > > > > > > From: "Drew Smith" _drewsmithtpa@gmail.com_ > > (mailto:drewsmithtpa@gmail.com) > > > > Mike, > > > > Even an updated SSDI would not necessarily help you, as a > death does > > not appear in the SSDI unless it has been reported to the Social > > Security Administration, and that's not likely unless the > individual > > was receiving SS benefits. Most 56-year-olds wouldn't be. > > > > Do you have the names of any survivors that might appear > in her obituary? > > > > Drew Smith > > > > > > ---- > > Drew- > > > > Actually the deaths of most 56 year olds WOULD be reported > to SSA by > > the funeral home if the deceased had worked under covered > employment. > > There could be a lump sum death payment due a surviving > spouse and/or > > survivor benefits due surviving children or spouse. It is even > > possible that someone who died at > > 56 could have been receiving disability benefits from SSA prior to > > their death--there are many reason why the death would > probably have > > been reported. > > > > Joan > > >