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Michael Seamon

American contract bridge player

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ18344442 ↗
Source-derived summary

Michael Seamon (January 15, 1960 – 2017) was an American professional bridge player from Miami Beach, Florida.

Born to bridge players Rita and William Seamon, Michael was the youngest of three children. His sister, Janice Seamon-Molson, is also a nationally ranked bridge player. On September 3, 1992, his son Kevin William Seamon was born.

Seamon died suddenly in 2017 of natural causes.

Editorial summary

“Michael Seamon” enters the record as american contract bridge player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Michael, Seamon and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong orientation record where physical form, institutional use and historical geography need to be read together. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 2017, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Michael, Seamon and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Michael Seamon” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Michael, Seamon and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q18344442. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960, 2017 and 1992.

Critical limits

A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Michael Seamon”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Michael Seamon primary sources, Michael Seamon archive and Michael research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Michael Seamon”?
  2. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Michael Seamon” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.