Sinai Family History
- Sinai Name Meaning
- Jewish: name bestowed with reference to Mount Sinai, where Moses received the Ten Commandments from God (Exodus 20). It can be either ornamental name, or derived from the identical male personal name which in turn is derived from the name of the Mount. Muslim: this is also found as an Arabic personal name. In the Qur’an, Mount Sinai is mentioned as sayna’ and sinin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 35,081 Historical Documents with Sinai on Ancestry
- 30,759 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,222 Census and Voter Lists
- 993 Military Records
- 862 Immigration Records
- 1,245 Member Trees
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Number of Sinai families
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from the 1920 US Federal Census Data
Number of Sinai families
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3 - 4 2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sinai census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from the Social Security Death Index (SSDI)
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from 1880 Federal Census Data
Sinai census records
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