hello mr sudmeier, go to http://www.familysearch.org and click on the search button.
fill in the name sudmeyer only for last name and find germany for contry .them click search and you should get several hundred sudmeyers some of them going back to 1650 or so.
good luck from lubertus lukey in canada
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