My experience was my great grandmother was born in 1869 and worked
through to the 1940's so was on social security for about 10 years.
You can submit an application to receive their original application from
when they filled it out. I believe about two years ago it cost about
$25.00 to get it. You had to submit your relationship to the individual
I believe. I believe I printed a form off of
to do the
submission. She was not listed on the SSD index though. I had her SS#
from family records.
It came in about a month's time gave me her father's name which we all
never knew. So for me it was a great find.
Lindsey
Andrea - Genealogy wrote on 8/30/2006, 8:51 PM:
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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