Somenheron, Lower Palatinate, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Most historical documentation indicates Somenheron as being in the LOWER Palatinate region of Germany, primarily to the west of the Rhine River from the French border to the area south of Bonn, Germany. However, Somenheron cannot be found in that region, nor anywhere in current day Germany.Ort in DE (Places in Germany) allows searching all German states for strings within a word, starting and ending with. In MAY 2024, using Somenheron as the base name, searches starting with Some, then ending with heron resulted in zero matches. Shortening the beginning to Som resulted in multiple matches. Studying the resulting matches for German and English phonetics or the use of a H resulted in the following candidates:

Searches for Sond resulted in two matches Sondernheim, Rheinland-Pfalz and Sondernau, Bayern.

Below is a translation of an eMail from Erika von Briel regarding Somenheron not being found in Germany. Source https://discourse.genealogy.net/t/my-heritage/210621Date: 2015/03/07 17:21:24From: Erika Von Briel Research note from WKH3: Sommerhausen is on the Main River in the UPPER Palatinate region of Germany NW of Nuremberg near Würzburg. Wikipedia.org

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