The Social Security Death Index: 61 Million Records to Advance Your Family Research

With over 61 million records on a single CD, the Social Security Death Index is a perfect starting point for your family history research. Because of the sheer size of the database, chances are good that you'll find one or more of your ancestors here.

If you've ever spent many long hours at the Archives plodding through thick reference volumes in search of family history clues, you will immediately appreciate the value of this CD. In just a few seconds you can call up records by given or surname name, birth date, death date, state of issue, last known address, and address of lump sum payment.

Names represented by on this Social Security Index are 19th and 20th Century recipients of Social Security who were deceased as of June 1999, that were compiled from the US government Social Security database. This database was made available by the US Government as a valuable family research resource.

Leading edge compression technology was utilized in order to publish the massive Social Security Death Index database on one CD. No need to switch CDs in the middle of your family research! Progeny's Family Explorer™ is included as a quick search tool, though the format of the data does not lend itself to display as tree charts.

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