What year did Social Security Numbers issued?

I am not american but I looked it up http://www.ssa.gov/history/ssn/firstcard.html So the first card was issued, sometime in mid-November, 1936, somewhere in one of 1,074 post offices to someone whose identity and SSN are unknown. In theory, the first card should have been issued on November 24th, but there have been reports of cards showing earlier dates. It is not clear whether the cards with earlier dates were actually issued on that day or whether some post offices predated some of their cards. If the 45,000 local post offices followed their procedures, no cards could have been issued before November 16th, and none should have been issued before November 24th. But here again, there is always the possibility that some local post offices failed to follow their instructions. The best we can say with certainty is that the first SSN was issued sometime in mid-November 1936. In any case, on whatever day the first card was issued, hundreds of thousands of SSNs were probably issued on that same day, so many people had Social Security cards issued on the very first day they became available.

I think the first respondent is correct in terms of the date. Social Security numbers weren't given out until the 1930s when Roosevelt put a lot of social programs in place to support the poor and people who were either too old or too disabled to work. If you are doing genealogy research, your best bet is to find cemeteries and church records in the area because both kept records to birth (or at least Christianing) dates and the like. Also, censuses and land records are a good way to go, but I don't know if they go back to the 1700s.

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From what I have read about it, the Social Security cards were not put into effect until 1936 .. umm that might be why there is no info for the 1700 and 1800's

When I was a child, I didn't get one until I was 16, but my children have all gotten them shortly after they were born.