United States
Social Security Administration Numerical Identification System, 1936-2007
Social Security Application (SS-5) - Includes date and place of birth, full names of parents, address, place of employment, signature.
U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 on Ancestry and NARA
To obtain copy of actual record, go to FOIA Online Request
Select "Create Request", then "Begin".
Agency: "Social Security Administration"
Request type: "FOIA"
Enter your Contact Information
Processing Fees - Will pay up to: Enter $30
Description: Enter alternate names and additional information to aid in finding the record
Request Expedited Processing: Select "No"
Request Fee Waiver: Select "No"
Request Type and Fee: Select "Photocopy of Original Application for Social Security Card"
Certification: Select "No"
Enter known information on deceased individual in the provided fields
Attach Supporting Files: Attach death certificate if deceased was born less than 120 years ago.
Claims Files
U.S. Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007 on Ancestry and NARA
Death Files
Social Security Death Index (SSDI), 1935-2014: Index on Ancestry, NARA, FamilySearch
SteveMorse Social Security Death Record Tool
Source material:
Social Security Card Applications by Debbie Kroopkin, Morasha (JGSI), Vol 39, Num 1. Spring, 2022.
- United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925 (Ancestry.com).
- United States Consular Posts Emergency Passport Applications, 1915-1926 (Ancestry and Jewishgen)
- Passport Master Index, 1906-1959 (NARA).
US State Department Files
http://www.jewishgen.org/databases/USA/RG59.htm
Many include documents of births, marriages and deaths of US citizens abroad; settlement of the foreign estates of US citizens who died abroad; lists and correspondence ofUS citizens temporarily or permanently residing abroad. Names of people who were not US citizens were often mentioned and are included in this database.
CONNECTICUT
https://connecticutgenealogy.org/
The website includes the first-ever online publication of Connecticut birth index data from 1897-1917, the only statewide index of Connecticut births that exists publicly online anywhere. (Yay!) We also acquired marriage and death index data from 1897 through 2017, while the next most complete online version of the index only had data through 2012. And we're also publishing for the first time anywhere the Connecticut civil union database for 2005-2015. Note that the website only has indices to the underlying records, not actual certificates; however, Connecticut kindly makes it very easy for almost anyone to get copies of any of the underlying records, even for very recent events. Connecticut marriage and death records are completely open to the public. And while Connecticut birth records are technically closed to the public for one hundred years, there's a neat trick written into their state law that allows anyone who is a card-carrying dues-paying member of a state-recognized genealogy society to get any Connecticut birth record without having to wait for a century. And relevant to Jewish genealogists, the Jewish Genealogy Society of Connecticut (JGSCT) is one of the fourteen groups currently recognized by the state.
For more information about these records, the best ways to get copies of the underlying actual certificates, and an entertaining story about our ongoing Kafkaesque nightmare to get more birth-related records out of the state, check out our latest newsletter here: https://tinyurl.com/ConnecticutGenealogy
Yale University Library Catalog
Holocaust Testimony of Sophie K.
NEW JERSEY
New Jersey Newspapers
New Jersey Naturalizations 1796-1991
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2649169
New Jersey County Naturalizations 1749-1986
https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2057433
New Jersey Essex County Naturalizations
https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/2748741
New Jersey Newark US District Naturalizations 1914-1945
https://familysearch.org/search/catalog/1332882
New Jersey Birth Index 1901-1903
https://archive.org/details/njbirthindex?sort=titleSorter
New Jersey Marriage Index 1901-2016
https://archive.org/details/njmarriageindex?sort=titleSorter
New Jersey Death Index 1901-2017
PENNSYLVANIA
Philadelphia Marriages:
Philadelphia Marriage Records 1916-1950
Philadelphia Marriage License Index 1885-1951
Philadelphia Marriage License Records 1885-1916
Philadelphia Bank Immigrant Passage Records, 1890-1949:
Steamship Ticket Purchase Ledgers
Pennsylvania Company for Banking and Trusts
Rosenbaum Bank Passage Order Books infopage (Jewishgen)
Registers of Detained Immigrants, 1904 - 1912:
Send an inquiry to the National Archives in Philadelphia. philadelphia.archives@nara.gov Ask if they can check the Registers of Detained Immigrants, 1904 - 1912, for that ship arrival (provide the ship name and date) for any reference to your immigrant (provide the name). What you are asking them to check is identified in the NARA catalog with the NAID number 567230. Be sure to provide that NAID number. If he was detained at all he should be listed in the register, along with additional information as to why he was held and what happened after that. (Source: Marian Smith 9/12/22)
OTHER
https://www.deathindexes.com/
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov.
https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/search
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-description.jsp?s=5057&cat=all&bc=sl
https://aad.archives.gov/aad/series-list.jsp?cat=all
https://www.uscis.gov/history-and-genealogy/genealogy/visa-files-july-1-1924-march-31-1944