Hui Family History
- Hui Name Meaning
- Chinese : Cantonese variant of Xu 1. Chinese : the 18th king of the Zhou Dynasty is most commonly known to posterity by his posthumously given name, Hui Wang. His descendants adopted Hui as their surname.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 26,974 Historical Documents with Hui on Ancestry
- 13,486 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,160 Census and Voter Lists
- 3,092 Military Records
- 6,606 Immigration Records
- 1,630 Member Trees
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Number of Hui families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Hui families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hui census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Hui families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Hui families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to immigration records dating from that era.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family.
The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Hui
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
Did the Huis fight for the North or the South? Or not at all? Military
records can tell you a lot about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation,
and even physical descriptions.
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