{"id":669,"date":"2015-07-27T21:12:15","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=669"},"modified":"2015-08-02T18:26:32","modified_gmt":"2015-08-02T18:26:32","slug":"citing-ssdi-with-no-social-security-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/?p=669","title":{"rendered":"Citing Social Security Items, Part II: Citing SSDI With No Social Security Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother&#8217;s entry in the &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpbolvw.net\/click-865524-10471632-1404254934000?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsearch.ancestry.com%2Fcgi-bin%2Fsse.dll%3Findiv%3D1%26db%3Dssdi%26gss%3Dangs-d%26new%3D1%26rank%3D1%26msT%3D1%26gsfn%3Ddorothy%26gsln%3Dufkes%26gsln_x%3D1%26MSAV%3D0%26uidh%3Dko5%26pcat%3D34%26fh%3D0%26h%3D83302601%26recoff%3D9%2B10%26ml_rpos%3D1\">Social Security Index (1935-2014)<\/a>&#8221; at\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com<\/em> does not include her Social Security number because<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-670 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ssdi-grandma-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"ssdi-grandma\" width=\"300\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ssdi-grandma-300x280.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/ssdi-grandma.jpg 446w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> her death took place in 2008. Suggested citation form for various incarnations of the &#8220;Social Security Death Index&#8221; (generally created from the Master Death File maintained by the Social Security Administration) include the Social Security Number and the year of death.<\/p>\n<p>There was only one Dorothy Habben Ufkes who died in 2008 so there&#8217;s no real difficulty identifying this entry. There aren&#8217;t many Dorothy Ufkeses in the Social Security Death Index period, but that&#8217;s really not the point. For some names the year of death along\u00a0with the individual&#8217;s\u00a0name\u00a0may not be sufficient to distinguish one individual from another in the database. My citations for individuals in the &#8220;Social Security Death Index&#8221; without Social Security Numbers need to be detailed enough to make it clear to which individual I am referring. I also want to have a format that I can use consistently so that I&#8217;m not mixing up how I cite individuals from this database.<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;ve decided to go with the following format:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Social Security Administration, &#8220;Social Security Death Index,1935-2014,&#8221; database,\u00a0<em>Ancestry.com (<\/em>http:\/\/www.ancestry.com : accessed 27 July 2015), entry for Dorothy Habben Ufkes, 12 April 1924-9 September 2008.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some individuals I may not have a complete birth date or death date, but what birth and death date information is given should make it clear to someone else the individual to which I am referring.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My grandmother&#8217;s entry in the &#8220;Social Security Index (1935-2014)&#8221; at\u00a0Ancestry.com does not include her Social Security number because her death took place in 2008. Suggested citation form for various incarnations of the &#8220;Social Security Death Index&#8221; (generally created from the Master Death File maintained by the Social Security Administration) include the Social Security Number and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[87,92],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-citing-ssa-materials","tag-ssdi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rootdig.genealogytipoftheday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}