Researching Koichi Kawana
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Records of Koichi Kawana on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Koichi Kawana and the Kawana Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Kawana 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 Kawana family tree.
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Kawana Family History Databases
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Kawana Forums
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Miscellaneous Kawana Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Koichi Kawana. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Koichi Kawana
Koichi Kawana
Koichi Kawana (Japanese: 川名孝一, born March 16, 1930 in Hokkaido – 1990) was a post-war Japanese American garden designer, landscape architect and teacher. He designed gardens in San Diego, Los Angeles, Denver, Colorado, Chicago, Illinois, Memphis, Tennessee, and St. Louis, Missouri. Some of his major works include the Seiwa-en Japanese Garden in the Missouri Botanical Garden, the Hannah Carter Japanese Garden and a dry landscape garden at Sawtelle, Los Angeles. He designed the bonsai collection for the Pavilion of Japanese Art at LACMA in the 90s.
Source: Koichi Kawana, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Kawana
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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