Researching Jim Kim
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 33 people with the Kim surname? In that year Kim was ranked number 3546 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Jim means "Form of JAMES. one who supplants" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Jim Kim on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Jim Kim and the Kim Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kim 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 Kim family tree.
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Kim Family Tree Databases
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Kim Forums
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| Did you know that there are currently 136721 people with the Kim surname in the USA? Kim is ranked number 112 for popularity in the USA. |
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Some Famous People called Jim Kim
Jim Yong Kim
Jim Yong Kim ( born December 8, 1959), also known as Kim Yong (/金墉), is an American physician and anthropologist who served as the 12th president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2019. On January 7, 2019, he announced that he would step down effective February 1, 2019.
A global health leader, Kim was formerly the chair of the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School and a co-founder and executive director of Partners In Health before serving as the President of Dartmouth College from 2009 to 2012, becoming the first Asian American president of an Ivy League institution.
Kim was named the world's 50th most powerful person by Forbes Magazine's List of The World's Most Powerful People in 2013.
Source: Jim Yong Kim, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Kim
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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