Time Machine recovery is missing last 6 months.

My SSD drive died and no data is recoverable from it. Fortunately I have had Time Machine running for years, so there should be an up-to-date backup. (It always is turned on. In fact I used it a few months ago to retrieve earlier versions of a fine, so I know it was working.)
However when I tried to use the disk recovery partition and recovery from Time Machine, it says the last complete backup was Jan 31. It recovers everything up to that date, but nothing for the past 6 months. I tried a system re-install followed by Migration Assistant from the Time Machine disk, but the same thing happens. Looking at the Time Machine file (using Show Package Contents) there are no files after Jan 31.
I am mystified as to how I might recover the missing files for the past 6 months and would appreciate any advice.

Thanks Bob. I gave that a try but it cannot find any other backups.
I have not paid the $20 to ask AppleCare for advice yet, because I suspect they will just tell me that since the Time Machine files and bands last mod date was Jan 31 then nothing was backed up after that.

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