It is important to keep in mind, regardless of how you have access to
the Social Security Death Index, that until quite recently everybody did
not have a Social Security number or card. The original law exempted
quite a number of professions from the Social Security system, including
many government and railroad employees, and I think that in some states
teachers were not initially eligible. Which is to say that not finding a
death record in the SSDI is not always the fault of the search engine
but possibly a simple result of the Society Security system's not
embracing everybody, including some people who worked as late as the
1970s or '80s.
 
Brent Tarter
The Library of Virginia
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