Skirda in Colorado
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Re: Skirda in Colorado
 RegNMINiles
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Posted: 28 Jul 2006 8:49PM GMT |
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In case you're interested, there is an Ida SKIRDA on the Social Security Death Index :
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
She was born Jan. 9, 1898 and obtained her Social Security card in Colorado. I don't know if SKIRDA was her married name. If cost is no problem, you could obtain the names of her parents from the SS-5 form she filled out when applying for a card.
To do that, click on "SS-5 Letter" on the right side of her entry on the SSDI.
Google.com has 113,000 hits for SKIRDA, but only 399 when Andrea is added without quotation marks. This search term will produce hits in which the name Andrea frequently occurs for people with other surnames. Using quotation marks, one could search for the exact term "Andrea SKIRDA" or "SKIRDA Andrea" but those search terms will not produce hits with a middle initial.
You could also check censuses later than 1900. Ancestry.com has indexes (I believe) for the 1910, 1920 and 1930 federal censuses. I always recommend befriending an experienced researcher on the message board for the relevant state, in hope of getting free research in an area which may or may not be complicated. By reading the queries on that board, one could see if enumeration districts are causing problems for census researchers.
There are also city directories for various cities and towns in Colorado, especially in the time period before people could afford telephones. I have bibliographic citations of directories for all states, excluding small towns.
The Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment claims to have death records since 1900---maybe they are indexed by surname. Any concerns the Dept. may have about issuing certificates to just anyone who comes along are surely prompted by fear of terrorists getting false i.d., but if the record is old enough, and you have photo i.d., and affirm that you are a blood descendant, you should be able to overcome their doubts.
What I have said could apply to any state and I do not know if there is a problem in Colorado.
Good luck from Reg Niles
http://ssdi.rootsweb.com/
She was born Jan. 9, 1898 and obtained her Social Security card in Colorado. I don't know if SKIRDA was her married name. If cost is no problem, you could obtain the names of her parents from the SS-5 form she filled out when applying for a card.
To do that, click on "SS-5 Letter" on the right side of her entry on the SSDI.
Google.com has 113,000 hits for SKIRDA, but only 399 when Andrea is added without quotation marks. This search term will produce hits in which the name Andrea frequently occurs for people with other surnames. Using quotation marks, one could search for the exact term "Andrea SKIRDA" or "SKIRDA Andrea" but those search terms will not produce hits with a middle initial.
You could also check censuses later than 1900. Ancestry.com has indexes (I believe) for the 1910, 1920 and 1930 federal censuses. I always recommend befriending an experienced researcher on the message board for the relevant state, in hope of getting free research in an area which may or may not be complicated. By reading the queries on that board, one could see if enumeration districts are causing problems for census researchers.
There are also city directories for various cities and towns in Colorado, especially in the time period before people could afford telephones. I have bibliographic citations of directories for all states, excluding small towns.
The Colorado Dept. of Public Health and Environment claims to have death records since 1900---maybe they are indexed by surname. Any concerns the Dept. may have about issuing certificates to just anyone who comes along are surely prompted by fear of terrorists getting false i.d., but if the record is old enough, and you have photo i.d., and affirm that you are a blood descendant, you should be able to overcome their doubts.
What I have said could apply to any state and I do not know if there is a problem in Colorado.
Good luck from Reg Niles