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.

What have I missed?  Is there a site such as my 2003 find that will give you
his death date without belonging to one more "free" site?

All I want is his death date.

Thanks for listening to my rant.  I hope you will have the wisdom to put me
on the right track.
M. Preston

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