Can you find out when somebody died if you have their draft record from WWI?

Question

The person did NOT die in the war.

Answer 1

Social Security Death Index is a good place to start.  Check for the link to the SSDI on the familysearch.org website.

Answer 2

Unless you put it in your question, we can't tell what country you are in. It is the most frustrating thing Yahoo does. It doesn't matter if you go into domestic Yahoo or one of the International Yahoos - UK, Australia, Canada, India . . . - all of the questions in English go into one big "pot".

If he died in the USA and If the draft record has his name and birthdate, you may be able to find him on

http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bi...

You may not. There are other sites with state-wide death indexes, but a link to the California Death index would not help you if he died in Oregon.

You can Google "{State name} Death Index"; some states have them, some don't.

You could post his name and DOB here, too. Someone may want to give you a fish instead of teaching you how to fish.

Answer 3

Yes and no... If you are trying to match someone against another record.. the birth date on the draft record could match a date in the social security death index. That is the normal.

Since Cary Grant as a celebrity has bios all over the internet, you might note that his birth was in 1904, and his orignal name was Archibald Alexander Leach, who was born in the UK.  Using that date of birth, it seems very strange for him to have a draft record from WW1.  Maybe WW2?  You might have the wrong draft record.

He died 20 Nov 1986 in Iowa.