How to find name and addresses of great grandparents with just SS#, date of birth and death of grandfather.?

Question

Are there any websites that offer this service or can I find out from the SS administration?

Answer 1

The ancestry.com & rootsweb.com webites both have social security death databases that will give you the last benefit address, where they applied for their initial SS card and where they last lived.
Also, they have a link (where for a small fee) you can request a copy of their actual social security application- which will give even more info!!!

Answer 2

How strange that the names are not on the Social Security Application, having worked for Social Security one of the things that was required since the onset of Social Security (1935) has been the parents names on the application, although from when cards were first issued until the first benefits were issues, it was not enforced strictly. From 1940 on it was a strict requirement. The social security administration in a newsletter a few years back indicated that by 2010 it would have serviced 5 generations of American Citizens. I assume that you have searched the country records where you G-GF was born and have also come up empty. The reason I mention the country records, is that the internet is not an absolute reliable tool and if someone has not uploaded that information on some site you will never find it, however, the good old paper records still exist and should be available thorough the county or state where he was born. I would also not depend on Ancestry as my primary or only source, because I have found to many errors on the site. It appears that who ever is being use to transcribe records, either doesn't not have any training in the penmanship of the English, or training in how to read the writing from colonial times to the present. I have also found the trees extremely unreliable, at least in my research. Additionally I use the National Archives, the State Archives, county records, including civil and probate. Church records, records of fraternal organizations, city county directories, as well as country histories, Newspapers and any other source I can find. I know that using only a computer appears to have become the way most people research, however, I have found that a hard copy (paper copy) of records most helpful, especially when I run up against something like you have,

Answer 3

Hey asilkap,

You can try using LDS Family Search for one. Then FreeBMD. Since you say SSA, you must be in the USA, you can apply for their information as a living descendant. With the Birth date, you can get a birth Certificate, and Death Certificate. You did not mention which state, so Search using YAHOO for "Vital Record " where location is the place where they were born, or died. Usually there are County records sites that are cheaper and easier than State sites. But the State ones are dependable.

Peoplefinders is a Jem of a site. Living or dead. You can find the NAME of a Great Grandparent on the BIRTH certificate of your Grandparent. Also, OBITS can help. This should take you some time. Focus on the Vital Records first, they have a lot of information. Both parents and their Birth place are mentioned on your certificate. Same for your parents, and theirs. If you go back far enough, you will pass the time when that became a requirement by law.

Answer 4

Here's what I di--went to social security data base under federal census and you can go back as many yrs. as u need to. From there type in the names of your ancestors and it will bring upnames and birthhof date and death dates. Good luck

Answer 5

SSN is confidential, so I doubt you are going to get anything from the SSA. You need an approximate date of birth, or county of birth to trace birth record, or you are going to have to pay for a search.