USA data on death can be obtained via Social Security as SSDI (death index) and SSDMF (death master file).
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Security_Death_Index>

One site <http://ssdmf.info> offers the data as text file. 

1.
Is there a public script that parses this data into a better format (e.g., CSV and explains what some other fields mean. (or can someone help to write it)

```
427528265JOHNSON                 JULIA          M              P0414200509201929                     
427528266MATTHEWS                JAMES          C               0318199408251930                     
427528270FOKAKIS                 ARTHUR                        V0726199607141919

```

2.
The format seem to be SS, name, birth and death. Some records have V or P in front of birth. What does that mean?