Perhaps in your search for vital records, your deceased answer is not included in the SSDI? Maybe they died prior to 1962, or their death was not reported to the SSDI? It is still possible that they may have, at some time, applied for a Social Security Card? If they did, then you may [...]

Long before the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) and Social Security Death Records (SSDR) were established in the nineteen hundreds, there were shipping lists. These records of the many thousands who came to America can be very helpful in establishing the identity of ancestors and relatives who were born in other countries.
Vital Records such as [...]

Birth, Death and Marriage Records
The foundation of genealogy or family history research is birth, death and marriage records. It is these vital records of life’s significant events that we turn to when we begin to seek out the knowledge of our ancestry. These public records and others such as the Social Security Death Index (SSDI), [...]