Ogata Family History
- Ogata Name Meaning
- in the island of Kyushu it is written with characters meaning ‘beginning’ and ‘direction’; this is the original form of the name, which is habitational, taken from Ogatago in Bungo (now Oita prefecture). in eastern Japan it is written with characters meaning ‘tail’ and ‘form’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 14,940 Historical Documents with Ogata on Ancestry
- 4,541 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,611 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,086 Military Records
- 5,714 Immigration Records
- 988 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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