Researching Soo 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 Soo means "excellence, long-life" and is of Korean origin.
Records of Soo Kim on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Soo 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 listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. 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.
Look at Parish Records for Soo Kim at Find My Past.
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Kim Genealogy Databases
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Find Soo Kim from Ireland on findmypast.ie
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
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Soo Kim. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Soo Kim
Soo Kim
Soo Kim is a Korean-American artist. She was born in South Korea in 1969 and moved to Los Angeles in 1980. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and a MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Kim lives in Los Angeles and is on the faculty at Otis College of Art and Design. Kim often employs techniques of cutting and layering in order to introduce areas of absence or disruption in what we tend to take for granted—the interpretation of photographic images."
Kim’s work is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. In 2013, Kim was awarded the prestigious John Gutmann Photography Fellowship by the San Francisco Foundation.
Source: Soo 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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