Kazan Family History
- Kazan Name Meaning
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from Hebrew chazan, an occupational name for a cantor in a synagogue. Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): from a Turkish loanword in eastern Slavic languages kazan ‘kettle’, ‘boiler’, ‘furnace’. Greek: reduced form of Kazandzis, occupational name for a maker of cauldrons or for someone who used a cauldron for the distillation of ouzo or raki, from Turkish kazanci ‘cauldron worker’ or ‘furnace worker’, from kazan ‘cauldron’ + the agent noun suffix -ci, or of a patronymic derivative of this, e.g. Kazandzakis, Kazandzoglou.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,368 Historical Documents with Kazan on Ancestry
- 2,709 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,340 Census and Voter Lists
- 551 Military Records
- 1,109 Immigration Records
- 659 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kazan census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Kazan census records
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