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From: "Richard A. Pence" <>
Subject: Re: Brick Wall
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 09:41:46 -0700


Margit Bakke <> wrote:

> "Richard A. Pence" <> wrote:

> Michael, something seems to be amiss here. Social security was
> > implemented in the U.S. in 1935. It is my understanding that
> only those persons age 65 or under were eligible - meaning
> there would have been no reason for anyone born before 1870 to
> sign up.

> SSDI
>
> There are 11,096 people who were born in 1869 who are listed
> at:
>
> http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi
>
> 7055 born in 1868
> 4563 in 1867
> 2971 in 1866
> 1680 in 1865
> 1100 in 1864
> 699 in 1863
> 506 in 1862
> 347 in 1861
> 218 in 1860
> 159 in 1859
> 173 in 1858
> 130 in 1857
> 99 in 1856


Interesting. Still, a very small percentage of, what?, 63 million.

I haven't looked at any of these, but would surmise that these would
be in there for one of the following reasons:

1. Error (for example, 1869 instead of 1896).

2. Railroad retirement. This program existed before SS and the
names of those who retired under the RR Retirement program are often
in the SSDI.

3. Husband/wife of a covered person.

There may be other reasons I can't think of.

Thanks for the info.

Regards,
Richard A. Pence, 3211 Adams Ct, Fairfax, VA 22030
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