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Question:is there someone who can find for me my aunts date of death and her social security number.
i need these to get her death certificate.
her name is ann stevenson born 15 july 1880 her maiden name was sterwart. please can someone help thank you.


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: is there someone who can find for me my aunts date of death and her social security number.
i need these to get her death certificate.
her name is ann stevenson born 15 july 1880 her maiden name was sterwart. please can someone help thank you.

Could you give an idea as to where your aunt was born please, and do you have any idea as to how old she was when she died and one last question is that the right spelling of her surname.

are you in the uk

You could search through these sites http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=d...
The only other way would be to telephone the social security and ask if they can help, they must hold records.
or contact the registrar office in the town where she lived or the church where she was buried. all these places keep records of deaths. If she was cremated, the crematorium hold a record book.
This also may be worth a try
http://www.ancestry.co.uk/search/rectype...
Or go through these
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=d...
Good luck.

Given that she was born in 1880, it is actually doubtful that she had a social security number. I searched SSDI and couldn't find anything under Ann (or Anne) Stevenson that would even come close to matching her birth year.

Having a location (state, city), husband's name, death (even approximate year) date would be very helpful.

To be on the social security death index, she normally would have to be drawing social security at time of death and on her own social security number. If she was drawing off of her husband's social security number, she will not be on it.

There are those elderly people who never had social security but had to get a social security number in order to get medicaid. They are also on it. However, the dates of death of the two I have found were wrong.
However, it might be close enough for your state's Bureau of Vital Statistics or county courthouse to do a search and find her.

Rootsweb & FamilySearch.org are 2 free sites that have the Social Security Death Index. You don't need the social security number in order to locate a person.

I might add the social security act was voted by Congress in 1934 and went into effect January 1, 1935. Your aunt and her spouse might or might not have applied for a social security number. A lot of people that age did not. Afterall she was almost 55 when it took effect.

In the US if you have a local genealogy dept. (ours is in the library) they often have all the earlier birth records in the state on microfilm. It wasn't required to record births until 1911. But some did & some registered later with proof because of needing one. All those would be on the microfilm.

Also if the death was before 1956 they have the death certs on microfilm so it only cost the price of a copy or if in another county & you need a researcher it's whatever the researcher charges which can vary from $6. flat fee to a charge per hour involved. They often have old local papers on microfilm where you can possibly find an obit. Ours does.

But the best place to check to see if she has a DOD & SSN is www.familysearch.com but since there was no SS until the 50s it's not very likely she'd have an SSN.

Try here....
http://www.ancestry.com/default.aspx?o_i...

14 day free trial atm access to birth and death certificates. Good luck!