How can i find details about a death record from the ss database all that is sup

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How can i find details about a death record from the ss database all that is supplied is the month/year?

long lost uncle,my mother has been trying to find out what happened to him for as long as i can remember. the record lists only name ss# august 1967. until now she never knew where he was or if alive or dead. i just recently got involved in trying to help her and have reached a dead end. she has some closure but it would really help if i could find some details about circumstances of his demise. i would appreciate any help .

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Hi if you know the town ,city , or county and state he passed away in.. Also his ss# birthdate and death date you can go to RAOGK.com and see if anyone there is doing death transcripts for that area.. if not you can get a death transcript yourself by going to the state he died in web page and looking for the links to that.. There is a fee for this.. I know California was about 125.00 to 350.00 depending on how in depth you wanted it to be.. I personally found someone in California who did death transcripts.. You can also call the library where he died and request a obits look up most of the librarians I have ever dealt with are more than willing to help... Also for a fee you can look at newspapers.com to see if there was an obit..Ancestery.com has newspapers as well but again it is fee based.. Some states have alot of info on genealogy so try that too you never know what you might find... There are quiet a few sites that offer different types of searches but they are mostly fee based.. I think your best bet is to try RAOGK the library and see what the transcript would cost if you sent for it yourself...Good luck and don't give up it might take some time to find what you want but eventually you will stumble upon it...

Just so you know even if you send for his ss application it won't give you last residence or any info like that.. It only gives you his address he put on it when he applied.. Won't be too helpful in your search and it will cost you 27.00 dollars... Source(s):
28+ years doing personal genealogy I had an uncle that died in 1957 and that is all it shows on him. It could be whoever provided the information to Social Security did not give the exact date. I suggest sending for the social security record. I know they charge but I don't know how much. Then perhaps it will tell you his last residence and you can check with the library where his last residence was and see if they can find an obit for him. Then you would know where he is buried and you could contact the cemetery for their records.

It will all open up for you once you get that one record and it will open lots of doors for you. Start with the assumption that he died in the county where he lived...or some place close. The USGenWeb project is full of volunteers who will pull obituaries and do death certificate lookups for people...if not free, at least for just the cost of copying and gas. Go to the GenWeb site for the county that's listed in SSDI as his last residence and look around for the volunteers page. Then contact the volunteers with all the information you have and see what they can find.

The other route, though less direct, is to play dumb. Call the Vital Records office or County Clerk's office for the county where he last lived and tell them that you lost your grandpa's death certificate and your mother is frantically trying to find a copy. Do they have it on file? If you go the direct route and say, "This is my long lost uncle and I don't know when he died," they're likely to blow you off. If you say it's Grandpa and he died in August, 1967, you're likely to find out if they have the record. Then ask them what it would cost for an uncertified genealogy copy (usually a fraction of the cost of a certified copy...under $10).

If you find out he didn't die locally, then you have to go a more difficult route. Since it was 40 years ago, the odds of finding anyone who remembers the details are slim. But go back to the obituary lookup idea and start there. It's very possible that it will tell you where he died. I had several uncles die on vacation in other states. It says in their obits that one died in Texas, another in Hawaii and the third in Florida and that their bodies were being returned for burial.

Once you figure out where he died, you can search for his death certificate. From there, request his military service records from NARA in St Louis. Finally, see if you can find his will...usually on file with the Probate Court in the county where he last resided. All of these pieces will help flesh out what he was doing all those years ago.