Chai Family History
- Chai Name Meaning
- Chinese : from the name of Gao Chai, a disciple of Confucius during the Spring and Autumn period (722–481 bc). His descendants adopted this character as their surname; it also means ‘firewood’. Korean: variant of Chae.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,363 Historical Documents with Chai on Ancestry
- 7,894 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,039 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,302 Military Records
- 4,514 Immigration Records
- 614 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Chai census records
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Chai families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Chai families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Chai census records
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