[FrankR]

Social SEcurity numbers are not a birth certificate. If the man was born in 1890, he would have been in his forties in 1935, and everyone had to get one of the new SS numbers, so...it is possible.

I didn't get one until I was 18, back in the 60's, and I was born in the 40's.

[ml/nj]

I didn't get one until I was 18, back in the 60's, and I was born in the 40's.

I'm not sure what your point is. I was also born in the 40s and I distinctly remember my mother driving me to a Social Security office in Glen Cove, LI. The number I was issued (beginning with 132) agrees with the list of Social Security prefixes. My understanding now is that I had to appear in person then to be assigned a number, and I did.

ML/NJ