If you are looking for a free public record of a deceased person then you may want to try searching on the Social Security Death Index, also known as the SSDI. The SSDI provides you with information such as date of birth, date of death, and social security number of the person you are searching for. The SSDI is free but does not always include all of the above information about a person if it is
. not available. You can search by last name, first or middle names, and by social security number if you do not have the person's name. To see the SSDI, click here: http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/.