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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] only complete, up-to-date SSDI
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:20:15 -0400
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Chad Milliner <> wrote:

> It is my understanding that many of the pre-1962 records in the SSDI are
> for people who were railroad workers. Railroad workers' old-age pensions
> are handled through a separate agency, but their death records are
> included in the SSDI. So I presume that the Railroad Retirement Board
> started using computers to keep track of pensioner deaths earlier than the
> SSA did. <<

Chad, there doesn't seem to be a disproportionate number of RR retirees
among the deaths entered for years prior to 1962.

Richard P.


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