Tag: death records

Because we can't shake the nagging feeling that we need to make an inventory of all the records we have, we are getting together this Saturday for a

Sometimes, to get started in family history, I guess all you need to do is talk about it. Parents and grandparents can be an invaluable resource in getting

Genealogists rely on physical records, like baptism, marriage, or death records, to complete each part of their family tree. But when these records have been lost, damaged, or

I remember hearing my parents talk about death records when I was a child and feeling a chill go down my spine. Death? All I knew about death

The Social Security Death Index is a list of persons who had a Social Security number, who are deceased, and whose death was reported to the Social Security

What is it? Containing around 94 million names and vital information of mainly deceased Americans, the SSDI is an extremely large and important data base, especially for geneology