Researching Emma Lai
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 2 people with the Lai surname? In that year Lai was ranked number 3577 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Emma means "universal" and is of German origin.
Records of Emma Lai on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Emma Lai and the Lai Genealogy
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Lai 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 below you will be able to find a birth record and, from that, a birth certificate can be ordered which lists the names of the mother and father, taking you back another generation in your tree. 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 Lai family tree.
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Search for the UK registered births, marriages and deaths of Emma Lai using the FreeBMD database.
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Research the Lai surname using fold3 Military Archives and view images of original Lai Military records.
| Did you know that there are currently 1348 people with the Lai surname in the UK? Lai is now ranked number 2813 for popularity in the UK. |
Lai Family Tree Databases
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Lai Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 9115 people with the Lai surname in the USA? Lai is ranked number 154 for popularity in the USA. |
Miscellaneous Lai Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Emma Lai. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Emma Lai
Emma Lai
Wing Ki Lai or Emma Lai (born March 14, 1988) is a Hong Kong cricketer who plays for Hong Kong women's national cricket team. She started learning to play cricket while working as a waitress at the Hong Kong Cricket Club. Just over a year after her first cricket lesson, she travelled to Kuwait as part of the Hong Kong squad, and a year later, she played in her first game for Hong Kong against Thailand.
Lai is often described as the captain of the Hong Kong women's team, and she did captain Hong Kong to the final of the East Asia Women's T20 Championship, in which Hong Kong finished second to China. However, she has since reverted to being just a player. In the Women's Big Bash League Twenty20 competition's WBBL02 season in 2016–17, she was the Associate Rookie for Perth Scorchers.
As of early 2017, Lai was a cricket officer for Cricket Hong Kong, running and planning coaching clinics, conducting demonstrations in schools and also doing some promotion.
In May 2021, she was named in Bauhinia Stars' squad for the 2021 Hong Kong Women's Premier League.
Source: Emma Lai, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Lai
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