Kocan Family History
- Kocan Name Meaning
- Polish, Czech, and Slovak: from a pet form of an Old Slavic personal name, Chotimir, Polish Chocimir, or possibly from kocan ‘cob’ (Polish kaczan). Slovenian (Kocan): topographic or status name for someone who lived in a cottage, from koca ‘cottage’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,640 Historical Documents with Kocan on Ancestry
- 2,239 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 876 Census and Voter Lists
- 393 Military Records
- 463 Immigration Records
- 669 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kocan census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Kocan surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
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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 Kocan families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Kocan 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.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Kocan
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
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