database of USA deaths from about 1962 to May 2006

SSDI Updated. RootsWeb offers access to the Social Security Death
Index (SSDI), which currently includes deaths records through May 2006.

This free database contains several important bits of information on the
more 77,584,245 persons whose deaths are on file with the U.S.'s Social
Security Administration (SSA), including: social security number, date
of issuance, state of issuance, date of birth, date of death, and last
address of record.

The SSDI is created from the SSA's Death Master File. It is a database
of people whose deaths were reported to the SSA beginning about 1962.
The SSA Death Master File and SSDI are used by leading U.S. government,
financial, investigative, credit-reporting organization, medical
research, and other industries to verify identity as well as to prevent
fraud -- and to comply with the U.S. Patriot Act.
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