Virani Family History
- Virani Name Meaning
- Hindu, Muslim, and Jain name found in Gujarat, India, and among people from Sind, Pakistan, meaning ‘(descendant) of Vir’. Vir (from Sanskrit vira ‘hero’) must be an ancestral personal name or the initial element of an ancestral personal name such as Virender.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,401 Historical Documents with Virani on Ancestry
- 1,139 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 78 Census and Voter Lists
- 2 Military Records
- 132 Immigration Records
- 50 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Virani census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Virani 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.
Find out where people with the family name Virani lived before coming to
the United Kingdom. Using Ancestry, you can search through
passenger arrival records, naturalization records, border crossings, emigration
records, passport applications, and even convict transportation records.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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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 Virani
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
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