Morikawa Family History
- Morikawa Name Meaning
- Japanese: ‘forest river’; mostly found in western Japan and the island of Okinawa. One daimyo family of Owari (now part of Aichi prefecture) descended from the Minamoto clan through the Sasaki.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,239 Historical Documents with Morikawa on Ancestry
- 2,296 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,136 Census and Voter Lists
- 683 Military Records
- 2,794 Immigration Records
- 330 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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