Researching Scott Kim
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 33 people with the Kim surname? In that year Kim was ranked number 3546 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Scott means "a Scotsman" and is of English origin.
Records of Scott Kim on Ancestry
Ancestry is a major source of information if you are filling out the detail of Scott Kim in your family tree. Many large databases are available to search covering from births, deaths and marriages, military records, census records and immigration records with many other smaller collections too. Free trials are normally available and are a good way to fill out a lot of your tree quickly.
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Scott Kim and the Kim Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kim Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Kim family tree.
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Study the LDS Database for records about Scott Kim.
Research the Kim surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Kim Military records.
Kim Family Tree Databases
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Kim Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 136721 people with the Kim surname in the USA? Kim is ranked number 112 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Kim Databases
Study the Ellis Island Database for information on Scott Kim. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Scott Kim
Scott Kim
Scott Kim is an American puzzle and computer game designer, artist, and author of Korean descent. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for Discover magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for magazines such as Scientific American and Games, as well as thousands of puzzles for computer games. He was the holder of the Harold Keables chair at Iolani School in 2008.
Kim was born in 1955 in Washington D.C. and grew up in Rolling Hills Estates, California. He had an early interest in mathematics, education, and art, and attended Stanford University, receiving a BA in music, and a PhD in Computers and Graphic Design under Donald Knuth. In 1981, he created a book called Inversions, words that can be read in more than one way. His first puzzles appeared in Scientific American in Martin Gardner's"Mathematical Games" column and he said that the column inspired his own career as a puzzle designer. Kim is one of the best-known masters of the art of ambigrams.
Kim designed logos for Silicon Graphics, Inc., GOES, The Hackers Conference, the Computer Game Developers Conference, and Dylan.
Kim is a regular speaker on puzzle design, such as at the International Game Developers Conference and Casual Games Conference. His wife, Amy Jo Kim, is the author of Community Building on the Web.
He lives in Burlingame, California with his wife Amy Jo Kim, son Gabriel and daughter Lila Rose.
Source: Scott Kim, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kim
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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