Any help you can give me. Let me lay out the story in a combination of fact and supposition, and if you can recommend a course of action to me, please do... My father, Vincent DePaul Summers, obtained a social security card. He signed it Vincent DePaul Sommers. Apparently the rest of the family kept Sommers. My dad changed it somewhere. Social Security paid its final sum on him under the name Vincent DePaul Summers! My dad almost never talked about his past. Little details occasionally, but nothing heavy at all. One slip. He said only once, and quickly changed the subject, that his father had lost his home in Oaklyn, NJ, because of the Great Depression. I am pretty sure he said Oaklyn. My Dad's SS card had been signed 1/6/39 and said he had been born in Camden. I know this can mean where the hospital is. My feeling is this. John Sommers was probably born in NJ. He met and married Sarah Elizabeth Brogan, and settled in Oaklyn. He lost his house after 1929. He was forced to rent in Camden. My father was born there. He took his first job, according to that SS card with Good Humor. 8th and Bulson St., which I was told was very much South Camden, near Gloucester. Times get better, and John moves with his wife (kids too? I am guessing not many if any) to Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA. I have no dates with any certainty for my grandparents. I do not know for sure where either of them were born, or who there parents were. How can I find them? Please put on your thinking caps. Both the most powerful and obvious techniques would be fine. Also the subtle or smooth. Thanks! And thanks for reading this lengthy epistle! Vince