Madaline:

If you go at the SSDI from the RootsWeb side, no Ancestry.com 
subscription is required 
<http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi>. He doesn't turn up 
as either Frederick J. or John F., either Quirin or Quiring.

However, in this case there are other possibilities. Check out whether 
Chicago police were covered by Social Security. He could have died 
before the SSDI was computerized in the 1960s. Or he could have died 
before he was old enough to qualify for Social Security benefits or 
Medicare, and no one reported his death to Social Security.

--Ida Skarson McCormick, [log in to unmask], Seattle

On 9/10/2010 8:34 AM, Madaline Preston wrote:
> I admit patience isn't one of my virtues but I've spent way too much time
> trying to find an ancestor on a social security death index that is a
> free index, not one that is advertised as free until they search, find a
> match and then tell you you have to be a member to view the data.
>
> In 2003 I went to ssdi.rootsweb.com, put in the state and the last name of
> my ancestry line and up would pop all the data.  Of course all of this now
> belongs to Ancestry which is another sore subject.  (They can take a simple
> data base and present it in a way to involve the maximum time spent in a
> search.)
>
> I'm looking for Fred (Frederick) J. Quirin born 21 Jul 1893 in Brooklyn,
> NY.  His WWII registration card, dated 27 April, 1942 states he worked in
> the 11th District Chicago Police Dept. (91st and Cottage Grove, Chicago) and
> gives his home address as 7921 Indiana Ave, Chicago.  You'd think this info
> would be sufficient to find the lad.
>
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