Kodama Family History
- Kodama Name Meaning
- Japanese: ‘small ball’; habitational name of an important family from Kodama-gun, in a part of Musashi now in Saitama prefecture. Another family, of Taira descent, from Kodama-mura in Shinano (now Nagano prefecture), writes the name with a different first character.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 10,987 Historical Documents with Kodama on Ancestry
- 3,012 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,852 Census and Voter Lists
- 976 Military Records
- 4,712 Immigration Records
- 435 Member Trees
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Number of Kodama families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kodama census records
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