Tuesday, January 24, 2006
I’m digging through my files now, figuring out what has come in in the past year or so since I last posted anything substantive here. One small thing I got was a copy of the Social Security application (SS-5) of my great-great grandmother Daley (Hertel) Schmitt.
I had gotten her death record a while back. She died in 1955, before the death records for Social Security were computerized, so she didn’t show up in the Social Security Death Index, the easy way to get a copy of an SS-5. So I hadn’t before. But the death certificate had her Social Security Number on it. That made it possible to send away for the SS-5 form.
There’s not a lot of new information there. I already knew that her birthday was June 16, 1884, from her death record. I knew the parents’ names, although it’s interesting to see her list her mother Wilhelmina’s first name as Minnie; now I know what my 3G grandmother went by in her daily life. And the SS-5 contains the best rendering of Daley’s given name yet: Thecla Anna Hertel. So it was useful for that. Also, it’s got her signature, which I didn’t have before.
Social Security Application (SS-5)
Posted at 10:17:39 AM
