Researching Alice Jim
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![]() | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2 people with the Jim surname? In that year Jim was ranked number 3577 for popularity in the UK. |

The name Alice means "Noble, kind" and is of English origin.
Records of Alice Jim on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Alice Jim and the Jim Family History
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Jim Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Jim family tree.
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 130 people with the Jim surname in the UK? Jim is now ranked number 3920 for popularity in the UK. |
Jim Family History Databases
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Jim Forums
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![]() | Did you know that there are currently 3038 people with the Jim surname in the USA? Jim is ranked number 156 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Jim Databases
Investigate the Ellis Island Database for information on Alice Jim. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Alice Jim
Alice Ming Wai Jim
Alice Ming Wai Jim is an art historian, curator and an associate professor at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She focuses her research on contemporary Asian art and contemporary Asian Canadian art, particularly on the relationships between remix culture and place identity. She holds the Concordia University Research Chair in Ethnocultural Art History (2017–2022).
Jim was the Research Fellow at the Centre of Asian Studies and the Centre for the Study of Globalization and Cultures at the University of Hong Kong. She was also the curator at the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art aka Centre A in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, from 2003 until 2006.
Jim is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (ADVA) with Alexandra Chang published by Brill (Leiden, NL) in association withGail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art (Concordia University) and the Asian/Pacific/American Institute (New York University). She is a board member of CAA (The College Art Association).
Source: Alice Ming Wai Jim, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Jim
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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