Omura Family History
- Omura Name Meaning
- Japanese (Omura): ‘large village’; a place name and surname found throughout Japan and the Ryukyu Islands. The name listed in the Shinsen shojiroku may be taken from a district in Hizen (now Nagasaki prefecture).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 5,584 Historical Documents with Omura on Ancestry
- 1,652 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,128 Census and Voter Lists
- 651 Military Records
- 1,874 Immigration Records
- 279 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Omura census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Omura surname lived over the years.
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Omura families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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