This search page offers you the most powerful and up to date Social
Security Death Index on the Internet! Best of all, the collection
is available FREE. The database contains information provided by the
Social Security Administration through the end of November 2001 and
contains 67,214,037 names.
Ancestry.com's Social Security Death Index is generated from the
U.S. Social Security Administrations Death Master File. It contains
the records of deceased persons who possessed Social Security numbers
and whose death had been reported to the SSA. In most cases a report
of death was made in connection with Social Security death benefits.