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Position:Home>Genealogy> Who transcribes the SSDI for what ever site, Mormon, rootsweb or ancestry?Question: Who transcribes the SSDI for what ever site, Mormon, rootsweb or ancestry!? On the SSDI I found my mom as C!. J!. Dallmeier!. The birth and SS# are right but the death date is wrong!. It said she died 15 Sep 1994!. She died 25 Sep 1994!.
On the California Death Index it is right even the SS#!. My question is Who transcribes the Death Indexes and when there is a wrong entry like in the SSDI how can we have them corrected if it was Social Security Administration that enters the information wrong!?Www@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: The SSDI Index is compiled by the Social Security Administration for public distribution!. When someone dies, their family calls the SSA to notify them and gives SSA basic death info!. [a place where a typo can occur] The family is then supposed to mail in a copy of the death certificate to SSA!. If no one id receiving benefits, families usually don't bother to follow up with the death certificate copy!. If they do send in the certificate, the data is entered into the files [another place where a typo can occur]!. This is why the SSDI is not considered a primary source but the death certificate is!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The websites don't transcribe them!. I have found 2 where the dates of death were wrong!. Both were elderly people that never put into social security but had to get a social security number in order to get Medicaid!. I don't know if the state reports it to Social Security or who!. One was in a nursing home and I thought maybe the nursing home did the reporting but the other wasn't!. Someone said it would be the family that did the reporting but if the person wasn't receiving Social Security benefits there would be no reason for the family to report the information!. The number in both cases was only obtain in order to get Medicaid!. Even a newborn has to get a social security number in order to get Medicaid!.Www@QuestionHome@Com I've encountered this in my research, too!. The Texas Death Index had one date and the SSDI had a day 10 different!. I'm not sure how to reconcile this other than to look at the death certificate to get the date certain!. It sounds like you already know this, though, and are wondering how to correct the SSDI!. My suggestion would be to contact the SS Department!.Www@QuestionHome@Com As indicated by the response before mine, typos are common with dates; especially if they are scribbled in examples of 11/12/1994!. That is the main reason genealogists use the military form of dates in all the records, such as 19 December 2008!. Someone may have transposed or scribbled the numeral 1 (in 15 Sep) instead of defining it well as a 2!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Social Security Death Index is done by the Social Security Administration!. It is common that the death date is wrong as they report the date the death was reported!. I believe it is intentionally done to help prevent another from identity theft!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |