BUG? Feature? Inconsistent SSDI results

LegacyUser

Justin Masters said: I had a source that I wanted to attach, and here are the two screens I see...

Now... watch the entire state of Minnesota.....APPEAR...



(wave hands, uh, mystically)

...and DISAPPEAR!



any idea where that Minnesota is coming from and where it goes?

LegacyUser

Jessie Hearle said: Minnesota is the state where the card was issued.
See the residence 1920 census.

LegacyUser

Adrian Bruce said: I'd agree with Jessie that Minnesota is the issuing state.

I have another issue though - the Source Linker view claims that the death is in Texas. (Not sure if that's true!)

Where is Texas in the "card view" of that Record hint in the previous screen shot? Shouldn't the card view include everything on the index record? If not, what does?

So - I can understand where Minnesota went to. But where does Texas come from?

LegacyUser

Justin Masters said: Thank you Jessie!

And Adrian, you bring up a good point, with regards to "Death".

I've found that you CANNOT rely on the SSDI for death LOCATION information, and sometimes cannot for death DATE.

The SSDI has a record of where it issued it's payments to, but as caretakers can attest, people were sometimes put in care homes in one location, while a child helped with finances in another location. (Or someone died in a hospital in a different town than their home.)

So it's (in my mind) a bit "iffy" to fill in a death field with info from the SSDI. It's "fairly good", but certainly not absolute.

But it's a pretty good source of birth info, as I suspect people had to prove who they were in order to get money.

In this case, as you would see on the right side of that screen shot, I have Texas somewhere in the death location, and that's backed up by the myriad of sources that attest to that as well. (or, various incarnations of the death records found for him).

LegacyUser

Tom Huber said: Yes, the state is the issuing state and the death place is the last place of residence that the Social Security Administration had on record at the time of death. In a number of instances, the death date is not precise and have, in a few instances, varied from the actual death recorded on a death certificate.

Because jurisdictional rules regarding death certificates vary from state to state, the SSA may be the first evidence of a person's death.

JudyCosler

ok, glad to find this. The death date for my father is off by 3 months (which happens to take his death date into the next year from actual date). Is there anyway to get this corrected that anyone here knows about? Write to SSA or other agency?

TIA.