I need an in-depth consultation with someone painfully familiar with using the 1920 Soundex to find someone in the NYC area. (g) Specifically, I noted that the foreign-born of a specific name appeared to preceded the born-in-NY entries. Since I'm a dozen or so entries into the Born-in-NYers, how likely am I to find more foreign-borns as HoH? Yes, I know, ignoring 'em is a really BAAAAD idea generally, but then again, generally, one isn't looking at over 80 HoH of the exact same given name and surname. Or at least, I usually find no more than 20 or 30 of the surname, and rarely more than 3 of the same given name. Thanks. Cheryl

The Soundex cards for the same Soundex code, same first name, (i.e., "John) are arranged alphabetically by birthplace. So, -- for John, same Soundex code -- cards for those born in Austria come before cards for those born in California, New York, etc. Hesse-Darmstadt would be somewhere between California and New York.