Changes to the Public Death Master File (DMF) and the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
Effective today, 01 November 2011, the Social Security Administration (SSA) changed its policy on what records it will use as source material for adding new entries in the Public Death Master File (DMF) which, in turn, is used to create the Social Security Death Index (SSDI).
The Agency decided that it can no longer use state death records to add new entries to the DMF. Furthermore, the SSA will remove approximately 4.2 million records currently on the SSDI because those entries were made based on information from state death records.
The rest of the article and the fact sheet from the Social Security Administration can be found on Steve Danko's genealogy blog HERE.
