Researching Mike 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 Mike means "Form of MICHAEL. who is like God" and is of Not available or unknown origin.
Records of Mike Kim on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Mike Kim and the Kim Family History
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. |
Miscellaneous Kim Databases
Check out the Ellis Island Database for information on Mike Kim. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Mike Kim
Mike Kim
Mike Kim (born December 11, 1976) is a bestselling author, inspirational speaker, consultant, NGO founder, and North Korea specialist. He is a Korean-American who, in 2003, moved to the China-North Korea border and founded Crossing Borders, a nonprofit dedicated to providing humanitarian assistance to North Korean refugees. He is the author of the Wall Street Journal featured book Escaping North Korea: Defiance and Hope in the World’s Most Repressive Country, a current events memoir published in 2008 by Rowman & Littlefield, about his experiences at the China-North Korea border when taking time off from business to help North Korean refugees and human trafficking victims through the modern-day 6,000 mile underground railroad in Asia. Escaping North Korea has been translated into Turkish and Polish. The book is being developed into a feature film with actor/producer Daniel Dae Kim (Lost, Hawaii Five-O).
Source: Mike Kim, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other 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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