{"id":259,"date":"2009-03-16T17:30:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-17T00:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/?p=259"},"modified":"2009-03-16T17:34:55","modified_gmt":"2009-03-17T00:34:55","slug":"ssdi-a-mystery-in-need-of-a-solution-with-a-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/16\/ssdi-a-mystery-in-need-of-a-solution-with-a-prize\/","title":{"rendered":"SSDI: A Mystery in Need of a Solution with a Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"
“Problem:\u00a0 A person has died, according to a vaguely written\u00a0published obituary, which\u00a0neglects to include a location of death.\u00a0\u00a0 Ancestry.com has the death on its site, citing “Social Security” as the source. <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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Rootsweb\u00a0codes their SSDI information\u00a0that a death certificate has been seen <\/strong>by someone somewhere.For “place” Rootsweb codes it as “FO.”\u00a0 But nowhere could we find\u00a0an actual\u00a0place of death.\u00a0 Nor a definition of “FO.”<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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The U.S. home county has no death certificate. <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
None listed in the home state death index. The home county vital records clerk said to\u00a0go to the State Department website, because if no state is involved, the U.S. State Department might have records or be handling it.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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The State Department site referred me back to the Social Security Administration themselves.\u00a0In speaking to\u00a0Social Security\u00a0by phone, they could find\u00a0no place of death either.<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n
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The Social Security suggestion that this individual may have died outside of the US fits with lifestyle, and is not outside the realm of possibility. <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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An explanation for the “viewed” death certificate is that Consular officers\u00a0 abroad might have seen one\u00a0since deaths of American nationals abroad are handled by them and they get involved with personal effects, etc., to an extent depending upon circumstances. <\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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We have been unable to find any information on whether this is indeed what happened.\u00a0\u00a0At present no one seems to know the answer to the place of death or be able to offer a web site\/data base\/publication\/hotline\u00a0to determine what the circumstances were.”\u00a0 Elaine Allen<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n

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Anyone who can solve this mystery:<\/strong> 1) identify what “FO” refers to.\u00a0 2) has a strategy that could verify the death, so a death certificate can be issued.\u00a0 3)\u00a0 provide information leading to a death certificate or proof of death–will receive a FREE book of their choosing from my own publication list.\u00a0 Your favorite genealogist, Arlene Eakle\u00a0 http:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com<\/span><\/div>\n

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PS Tune in tomorrow on my NEW Tennessee blog, 17 Mar 2009
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“Problem:\u00a0 A person has died, according to a vaguely written\u00a0published obituary, which\u00a0neglects to include a location of death.\u00a0\u00a0 Ancestry.com has the death on its site, citing “Social Security” as the source. Rootsweb\u00a0codes their SSDI information\u00a0that a death certificate has been … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259\/revisions\/265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arleneeakle.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}