Miyahara Family History
- Miyahara Name Meaning
- Japanese (mostly eastern): from a term meaning ‘plain of the shrine’. Families of Kii (now Wakayama prefecture) and Kazusa (now part of Chiba prefecture) are of Minamoto descent; while a family of Hyuga (now Miyazaki prefecture) descends from the Taira clan. The name is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,054 Historical Documents with Miyahara on Ancestry
- 1,672 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 618 Census and Voter Lists
- 440 Military Records
- 2,023 Immigration Records
- 301 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
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