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I have started with Genealogy over 10 Years ago after I´ve bought a Familytree-Program during a Holiday in the USA.
This Program included a copy of the Social Security Death Index.
After I´ve entered the Name Soumagne, it showed me 2 Persons.
After I had requested and had received a copy of the original application for the Social Security Number , I was now in the possession of the complete names of these persons as well as the name of their respective parents.
Now, the Searching really started.
By further searches in a published Census from 1920 from the USA I discovered the immigration year from one of these persons to the USA, as well as his occupation and the name of his wife.
This is an example, how extensive the search can be.
From the most diverse sources (archives, telephone CD´s, Internet, etc.) i´ve found over 1200 Persons with the surname Soumagne (I remain with this Name, altough in the meantime nearly 50 different ways of writing have emerged) in Germany, Belgium, France, Spain und the USA, with the oldest dating refers to the year 1553.
Certainly, some People will be entered more than once, thats due to different spellings of the first Name, moving around and marrying.
Since it is nearly impossible to link Families together with these searches (except when searching special genealogy pages), I depend on the cooperation of other persons.
With only one Email I was able link 11 persons together.
Unfortunately the search in archives is made more difficult by data security guidelines. In archives only the data until 1876 are publicly observable.
From 1876 to 1938 one gets only information with justified interest (e.g. ancestor research) and this only in the own direct line of the family.
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