Hi Andrea:
There are a lot of WWI Draft Registration cards reproduced on Ancestry.com's
records. You can actually print them off and they contain not only the
birth date but where the person was living, their occupation, their physical
description and their signature. To order social security records is very
expensive and you have to prove a close relationship, at least the last time
I tried to order one. If someone needs a record looked up, I have a full
subscription to
Ancestry.com and would be happy to help if I can. You can
just e-mail me direct at tcw26(a)cox.net. Karen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea - Genealogy" <andrea.genealogy(a)pceaze.com>
To: <INRANDOL-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2006 7:51 PM
Subject: [INRANDOL] Question about Social Security/Genealogy
I had someone e-mail me about getting birth certificates when none
are
available at the county level. And one of my ponderings was possibly
getting records from the social security office. Has anyone ever done
something like that, I was just wondering what kind of hoops you need to
go
through to get official documentation for genealogy purposes especially
for
someone who was born prior to 1900 and lived long enough to receive social
security. Can you even get info like that? My idea was that if you can
not
locate a birth certificate that should of been on file but was not, to get
say a WW1 draft card plus social security docs for further documentation
on
their age, birth date, occupation, death date, that type of thing. I've
never done that, but is it a viable idea? What is the history time line
for
social security as we know it today? I thought that it started in the
1930s
but someone who sits beside me says no, that it was earlier than that. I
know that there were pensions in various ways before that, but they were
not
gov subsided other than for veterans and their families, right? Education
needed! Andrea
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