Researching David Thai
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The name David means "beloved" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of David Thai on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for David Thai and the Thai Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Thai 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 Thai family tree.
Search Parish Records for David Thai at Find My Past.
Search for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of David Thai using the FreeBMD database.
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Explore the LDS Database for records about David Thai.
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Thai Family Tree Databases
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Look at One Great Family for Thai records submitted by people who are already researching the Thai Family Tree.
Find David Thai from Ireland on findmypast.ie
Thai Forums
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Look at the Ellis Island Database for information on David Thai. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called David Thai
David Thai
David Thai, born Thái Thọ Hoàng (January 30, 1956 – ), is a Vietnamese-born American gangster who was the founder and leader of the notorious Born to Kill gang during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was also responsible for running a massive illegal counterfeit watch operation and at his peak controlled the market and distribution of counterfeit watches in New York by means of blackmail and extortion. He was the official leader of Born to Kill from 1988 until his arrest in 1991, which was the combination of months of investigation by the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in conjunction with the aid of a former gang member who defected from the gang and became an undercover informant, helping secure the convictions of David Thai and several of his high-ranking officers.
Described as a sly, shrewd and lethal gangster, David Thai fashioned himself as a big brother and the protector to the Vietnamese community in Chinatown. Thai was described by crime writer T. J. English and many others as being well dressed, usually wearing "a tailored sports coat, silk shirt and loft leather loafers" alongside a pair of sunglasses, and was said to have resembled more a businessman than a gangster. During his interview with Peg Tyre after his arrest on murder charges in 1991 and other interviews that went on in the course of his trial, Thai often stated that he was trying to protect and help the Vietnamese community in Chinatown, often by giving the newly arrived refugees money and a place to live. In his interview with Tyre, Thai went on to describe that he sacrificed his first marriage due to his "love for his Vietnamese brothers".
On October 23, 1992, a United States federal judge in Brooklyn sentenced Thai to life in prison for murder, attempted murder, conspiracy, robbery, extortion, and related offenses. Federal prosecutors claimed that David Thai's life sentence significantly impaired Asian gang activity in New York.
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