Kooi Family History
- Kooi Name Meaning
- Dutch: from Middle Dutch kooye ‘decoy’, ‘cage’, ‘fold’, a metonymic occupational name for a maker of cages or decoys or for someone who caught ducks by decoying them.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 64,657 Historical Documents with Kooi on Ancestry
- 37,255 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,916 Census and Voter Lists
- 398 Military Records
- 743 Immigration Records
- 24,345 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kooi census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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