Uemura Family History
- Uemura Name Meaning
- Japanese: from a common placename meaning‘upper village’ or (less commonly) ‘planting village’; it is also read Kamimura (which can be written to mean ‘divine village’). The surname is found in western Japan and the Ryukyuan island of Amami.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,670 Historical Documents with Uemura on Ancestry
- 1,220 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 401 Census and Voter Lists
- 165 Military Records
- 1,651 Immigration Records
- 233 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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