Nishi Family History
- Nishi Name Meaning
- Japanese: ‘west’; mostly found in the islands of Kyushu, where two samurai families were based, and Okinawa. In some cases, the name may be a shortened form of other names beginning with Nishi-.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 11,333 Historical Documents with Nishi on Ancestry
- 3,389 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,890 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,010 Military Records
- 4,538 Immigration Records
- 506 Member Trees
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Nishi census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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