Social Security Death Index Interactive Search
Find out if someone is really dead by searching the Social Security Death index. If you find their record, you will find out the person's birth date, death date, last residence, last benefit, SSN, and place SSN issued. Free.
Find A Grave
Find the grave of a famous person or the grave of an ancestor.
From a copy of a person's death certificate, you can find out the most amazing things, like funeral home names and where they are buried. If you write a funeral home director and ask nicely enough, even if it's only a pretext, he will often provide you with addresses and phone numbers of family members. So, if someone you are trying to locate has a family member whom you know has died, this may be the way to go.
Also, please note that if you find a person listed in the Social Security Death index, you may write for a photocopy of the actual application for a Social Security card (Form SS-5--Social Security Number Record Third Party Request for Photocopy) - there is a small fee associated with such a request. Here is the address:
Social Security Administration
Office of Central Records Operations
Attention: FOIA Workgroup
P.O. Box 17772
300 N. Greene Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21290
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