Takai Family History
- Takai Name Meaning
- Japanese: ‘high well’; the name is listed in the Shinsen shojiroku and is found mostly in central and western Honshu.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 4,131 Historical Documents with Takai on Ancestry
- 1,713 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 614 Census and Voter Lists
- 223 Military Records
- 1,338 Immigration Records
- 243 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1851 Canada Census Data
Takai census records
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