WhitePages.com lets you search through all of the telephone books in the country and sort through the data in various ways. One of the things they do is list where people who have a certain last name live, and what first names those people typically have.
Here’s the map for Sommerer, but you should click on the link, because you can look at the data in other ways as well.
Lloyd Jr. says
Just a quick note about registering on the website. You have to enter a real email address, because it sends you an email that you have to click on to finish the registration.
If you can’t log in, that might be why. I would be glad to delete your username so you can try again. Just let me know.
Rachel says
So, do we have any connections (literal) to the Sommerers in Pennsylvania? There seem to be a number of them.
Lauren says
Wow, for such a unique name, you guys are surprisingly popular!
Lloyd Jr. says
You should see the Smith Family! And you can also look up first names too.
Christina Rowland says
apparently the two brothers who came over and went to Missouri and Nebraska were mor prolific then the rest of them! Or maybe they just had more boys…..I keep forgot it was only counting people with the name Sommerer, not the ones related to them.
Heidi says
Darn it! Not one Sommerer in Hawaii. I guess I will have to spring for a hotel there.
Mary Jane says
According to the summer her genealogy book dad has passed to me, the two Sommerer brothers left from a town called Weidenberg. Has anybody tried to find our relatives there, or larger neighboring Beuruth? Has anyone done “23 and me” and had any “relatives” pop up?