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From: Doris Slaughter <>
Subject: Soc Sec Information
Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 16:32:03 -0400 (EDT)

At 08:33 AM 8/24/98 -0500, you wrote:
> I found this SS information on Gordon SUMMERS at
>http://www.ancestry.com/. Can someone help me find other information
>on him.

Hi Donna and All,
Have you used the Social Security Records? This piece was written to
answer a Social Security Records question on a list and it was published in
MISSING LINKS: A Weekly Newsletter for Genealogists which is on line.
" The Social Security records are accessible to the genealogists through a
series of steps, but the "privacy rights" prohibits the administration from
giving information on living person with the exception that a person can get
information on their own record. The Social Security Death index lists only
persons who died and their survivor filed for death benefit. With a SS
number from the index or from personal paper the next step can be taken,
send for the SS-5 form. This form was filled out by the applicant when
he/she requested a SS number. It has the applicant full name, address, name
of employer and address, age, birth date and place, Father's full name,
Mother's maiden name, date of application and applicant signature. This is
PRIMARY EVIDENCE because this was filled out by the applicant. Send $7.00,
person's name, SS number and a request for the SS-5 form to: Freedom of
Information Officer, Social Security Administration, 4-H-8 Annex, 6401
Security Blvd., Baltimore, MD 21235. It can take up to 3 months to get a
responds.
I have used this source more than once. I got my Grandfather's SS number
from my Mother's papers and others I found their numbers on the death index
which I used to sent for SS-5 form. One example is unusual, but rewarding. I
had a Cecil Graham of Wyoming County, WV that I was gathering information on
when I found his marriage record, but his wife, Manda Shrewsbury, did not
list her parents. I looked on the SS death index and found a Manda Graham
born and died in WV, so I took a change and used the SS number to sent for
SS-5 form. Well I got a bonus, because her benefit was based up her husband
and they sent me both forms. On these forms were her parents including her
Mother's maiden name and his listed information that verified what I had."

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