SortedbyName - website for US deceased folk

Question

Disclaimer: Please do not post peoples' SSN's on their profiles. Thank you.

I'm sure some are familiar with this site, but some may not be. If you're not sure of a person's birth location in the US, but you know their birth date, you can look up their date of birth to see when their SS # was issued. The site seems to inference by number given that they can confirm a rough location. This is the first time I've come across it and it appears to be safe. No pop-ups. It does have a LOT of data though. While I was a bit concerned with the posting of SSN's on some of the entries, this is in the public domain and apparently not a privacy breach. https://sortedbyname.com/index.html

Answer 1

Just to add to your guidance...

The following link is from the Official Social Security "Program Operations Manual System (POMS)" that outlines the Do's and Do Not's specific to "Disclosing a Deceased Individual’s Information".

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps10/poms.nsf/lnx/0203315010

It's very informative and provides some valuable clarification regarding this topic.

~Brian Kerr

Comments

Thanks Brian. I did find the site helpful when I was running a search engine search for an individual who was born in the early 1900s and was killed part way through the century. I thought I knew which state the person was born in, but while vague, it gave me a bit more of a clue I was right. It's not something I used as a reference, but as a double confirmation. It's also time consuming.