Nagano - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Re: Ozawa and Yoshie Families

scottishrose52 — 2012-01-05 04:15:11Z

It has been many years since I last posted and I have found my mother's sister in Shirojiri. After the earthquake and tsunami hit I contacted the city hall of Shirojiri to make sure they were okay.
A wonderful person called from the city hall to my aunt and then sent me an email with her address and telephone number.
I did so appreciated your reply, but became busy and alas,
I forgot to reply back to you.

Otsuka family members

margojackjrsmom — 2011-04-04 00:20:59Z

I am trying to find family Otsuka family members my great grandmother Kimi N Otsuka, Great grandfather Tokuo Otsuka they immigrated here in 1907 from Japan. Trying to figure out how to find their parent info in Japan. Can anyone help me. Haven't been able to figure out how to access japan birth records etc.

Re: Looking for Otsuka family members - grandfather kesanosin

margojackjrsmom — 2011-03-27 01:28:04Z

I am trying to follow my family line back to relatives with last name Otsuka. My grandmother had a brother who she called my "Uncle K" last name Otsuka. He lived in Japan. My grandmother has passed and we didn't know much about him. All I know of him was we called him Uncle K. There was one more detail I know about him but want to see if you know this detail as well.
Please contact me at margojackjrsmom@gmail.com
Thanks

Looking for family in Shirojiri

scottishrose52 — 2011-03-12 08:45:21Z

I am trying to locate my moms youngest sister and her family. Shigeko and her husband Izumi Yoshie. Their house was a little ways from the station and their house was surrounded on three sides with a vineyard. I believe they rented this house out after buying another one. They have two sons Chihero and Tomaki (not sure if spelling is correct. Chihiro is now married and not sure where he lives. Uncle Izumi worked in a place where special rocks were found (some were bluish purple and looked like they had crystals in them). Any help would be appreciated.

Looking for family in Shirojiri

scottishrose52 — 2011-03-12 08:45:20Z

Sakon , Saga, Teramoto,Okazaki family

planscapes — 2010-07-19 21:32:45Z

Anyone have any info on these families in the Chugoku part of the island in tottori-ken???
Looking for relatives...we live in Canada.

Tamaki family in Tottori

jenneagle — 2010-07-16 07:43:15Z

I may be posting in the wrong area, but I am trying to locate any info on my grandmothers family. Her name was Tamaki Yoshie. She married into the Yzquierdo family, moved to Tokyo, then Michigan. I know she had at least one older sister and a brother. She and her sister both had small pox when they were younger. Her brother is/was a police officer and took the last name of his wife (which I do not know). Her mothers name was Tamaki Midori.

Need Help finding information on Sato family

3170760 — 2009-09-23 00:18:40Z

How do you find out information from Japan on a family?

I know that my husband's grandfather is Arthur Sato.

His father's name is something like Masao or Masozo Sato born about 1865 and lived in NY. We were told by many family members that Masao(?) was from a royal or noble family but that's all they knew.
He came over here in the 1890's but have not found the record yet. He did own a large piece of land in NY when he settled here, but lost it somehow to the state.
A friend that is from China said that the first name can actually give you the town of origin and then the house, but I would like to find out everything I can: his ancestors, his correct spelling, if there is a crest, any siblings, etc. If anyone can help, I would greatly appreciate it.

1910 census http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1910USCenIndex...

1920 Census http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=1920usfedcen&a......

Looking for my Japanese grandfather Shiraishi Choujirou 白石長次郎

box4km — 2009-03-23 07:36:52Z

Hello. Does anyone know how to look up records of Japanese military men who were in China in the early 1940's? My Japanese grandfather met and married my Chinese grandmother while he was in China in the early 1940's (before 1943). Somehow they got separated during the war and never found each other again. Where can I look up the record of Japanese men who went to China during World War 2? I would like to find my grandfather or at least find out where in Japan was he originally from. Thank you.

Re: Ozawa and Yoshie Families

poncat — 2009-01-27 03:12:58Z

After I posted the last one, I realized that you posted under "Nagano" prefecture. Sorry about that.

There is a city called "Shi O Ji Ri".

So I guess they lived in Shiojiri city of Nagano
Prefecture. Do you have street name and number?

Re: Ozawa and Yoshie Families

poncat — 2009-01-27 03:06:50Z

First of all, where was Shirojiri? Which prefecture? Which city?

If you have their address in Japanese, scan it and upload here or send it to me by e-mail. I can read Japanese. Even if your aunt and uncle don't live there anymore, you can at least get the idea where they lived.

Do you know names of your aunt and uncle in Japanese?
We don't use English alphabets to record our names.

There are some possible Kanji for one sound. I can think of at least two sets of different characters for the name of "Yoshie".

"Chihedo" doesn't sound like Japanese name.

Did your mother have Japanese "Koseki" with her?

Japanese family registration is not open to the public. If you don't know the exact registered address of your mother, it's difficult to get information of her family.

Ozawa and Yoshie Families

scottishrose52 — 2009-01-26 16:00:23Z

I have been trying to locate my Aunt and Uncle. I believe the train station in which we got off of was in Shirojiri (not sure of spelling). They are Shigeko and Izumi Yoshie (with Yoshie being the last name-I think). It has been many years since my mothers death and that was the last time I was able to talk to them. I have tried writing, but apparently the last known address my mother had was not correct. They have two sons Chihedo and Tamaki (not sure the spelling is correct for their names). I have not seen any of them since 1976. I would love to hear from someone who could help me relocate my mothers family. My mother's maiden name was Ozawa.
Judy

Kikuko Kato

hilltophereford — 2008-11-29 16:29:45Z

I am looking for any information on Kikuko Kato. She was born 19 Dec 1929 in Nagoya Japan. She married Raymond Wesley Cline around 1950. She moved to America with her young daughter, arriving 24 Feb 1953 in San Francisco, California and her husband followed shortly thereafter.

I have no information on her family and would be very pleased to hear from anyone who might have information about her family or her early years in Japan.

Thank you

Darla Schwartz
hilltophereford@yahoo.com

Re: Ogawara/Miyashita/Kobayashi

sdjohnsonjp — 2008-08-01 22:23:40Z

I am very familiar with the area you refer to. I worked at a school there and explored the area on bike and on foot. Chikuma is named for the Chikuma river running through it. It was incorporated into Nagano city within the last ten years or so. The area is famous for the beauty of their apricot orchards when in blossom, and for the taste of the fruit which they produce.

Can you speak, read/write Japanese? Do you or anyone else have contact with the remaining family in Japan?

(I am quite sure I wrote a lengthy response to this query when it was first posted, but I lost what I wrote before being able to post it.)

Spencer

Re: Looking for Tsutsumi family from Nagano

thephantazm — 2007-10-11 02:11:23Z

Hello again. With the people search located at http://www.telecore.jp/FreeSearch/FreeSearch.aspx I could try different kanji combinations, but would need a first name.

Ogawara/Miyashita/Kobayashi

ahndz — 2007-02-19 18:38:57Z

Looking for information on any Ogawara or Miyashita family from Nagano-ken.

Soshiro Miyashita dob 2/17/1918, dod 1/30/2000 from Kurashina Chikuma City. & Matsuko Ogawara dob 3/5/1923 dod ?? from Yashiro Chikuma City were my grandparents.

He took her maiden name to keep the family name alive since there were no males on her side.

Her parents were Chiyogi Ogawara and Shigneko Kobayashi from Yashiro Chikuma City.

I don't know much more about his family except that there is one sister living still in Kurashina Chikuma City.

Re: Ozawa, Tomiko

2006-11-24 01:58:23Z

I know that is two years late. Hoping that you are still surfing this site.
My aunt was Shigeko and she was married to Yoshie Izumi. They had two sons, (not sure of spelling) Chiheido and Tomaki. I believe she had 2 brothers and 2 sisters (maybe 3), my mom Tomiko being one of them. Her mothers name was Keiko.
Hope to hear from you soon.

Judy

Re: Looking for Otsuka family members - grandfather kesanosin

2006-10-04 20:47:21Z

spelling on name should be Kesanoshin.

Looking for Otsuka family members - grandfather kesanosin

2006-10-04 20:46:07Z

my grandfather immigrated to the United States in late 1890's to early 1900's. probably by way of New York.(possibly San Francisco)
Ending up in California (El Centro) after the war. died in Long Beach California (born June 16 1875 died February 21, 1961)

Re: Looking for Tsutsumi family from Nagano

2006-07-18 03:29:11Z

I checked the name dictionary (search "Jim Breen name dictionary") and foun seven different ways to write Tsutsumi in kanji.

Re: Looking for Tsutsumi family from Nagano

2006-07-18 03:25:20Z

Do you know where in Nagano they live(d), and what the kanjis are? I live in Nagano now, and am willing to do what I can. Tell me what you have and what you need.

Looking for Tsutsumi family from Nagano

2006-05-12 05:16:38Z

Trying to find any info on the Tsutsumi family-my relatives on my mother's side. ANY info would help.

RE: Masuzo Hagita

2006-03-22 09:52:55Z

Correction...The time frame was later than World War II, it was during the Korean War and/or Vietnam Wars period that Tokie met Jim Spitz (of the U.S. Army), and got married. It is Tokie's family history that I'm trying to find. Thank you for any assistance. Gary

Re: Trying to Find info on Miyoko Miyabayashi from Matsumoto City

2006-02-16 02:18:32Z

hi mom

Re: Trying to Find info on Miyoko Miyabayashi from Matsumoto City

2004-08-22 23:47:08Z

I am the father of Rita Ostrager, who is trying to obtain history and the resting place of the father of her mother Miyoko.
I really can not understand why she has to go on the net for this information, since all she had to do was ask me. and why would she say she wants to put flowers on her grand fathers grave. Since not one of our 4 children brought even one flower to thier mothers funeral service, and not one of them has ever asked about thier mothers resting place.

Re: Ozawa, Tomiko

IZUMI — 2004-05-19 03:47:54Z

Just fooling around with the net and spotted your note.
My mother was Shigeko Izumi.She has a sister who is married to a Yoshie and I was born as Shigemi. My mothers people are from Matsuyama. I was born in Kure,Shikoku.She was from a family of 9. I think 2 brother and five girls..Goodluck....I believe that Izumi is quite a common name. I believe my grandparents were in their 90's when they passed away.
Kath

ITO, YUWATA, TERAKURA, SEGA, KITAKATA, KAKIYAMA, KURISAKI

2004-04-06 20:11:06Z

YUKIE ITO B 12/23/23 IN GIFU KEN D 10/28/01 IN SALINAS MONTEREY, CA, USA MARRIED HERSHELL EUGENE GRUBBS B 5/9/35 IN GRAND CHAIN, PULASKI, ILL D 5/19/77 IN SALINAS, MONTEREY, CA
FATHER: TORAJIRO B 3/22/1878 (MOTHERS NAME WAS NAMI)
MARRIED 2/17/1919
MOTHER: KURA YUWATA D 1/12/43 (FATHERS NAME WAS KENJIRO)
TORAJIROS FIRST WIFE WAS SEN TERAKURA MARRIED 6/12/1911
YUKIES SISTER: CHIEKO B 6/24/14
BROTHER: NOBUSHIGE B 1/1/29

HERSHELL AND YUKIE ADOPTED 4 CHILDREN IN 1972 FROM SOCIAL SERVICES OF JAPAN IN OSAKA

ALSO LOOKING FOR INFO ON TSUGIO SEGA OR ANY FAMILY MEMBERS. THIS IS MY HUSBANDS BIOLOGICAL FATHER. TSUGIOS FATHERS NAME WAS RIKIO SEGA. MOTHERS NAME WAS MIKIE KAKIYAMA. TSUGIO MARRIED YOKO KITAKATA ABT 6/61. YOKO d ABT 4/22/68 TSUGIO REMARRIED ON 1/30/70------EMIKO KURISAKI. PLEASE EMAIL ME @ MIETAK@AOL.COM OR AJSERNAGRUBBS@AOL.COM
THANKS IN ADVANCE

TSUGIO SEGA

2004-04-06 19:03:12Z

LOOKING FOR INFO ON TSUGIO OR ANY FAMILY MEMBERS. THIS IS MY HUSBANDS BIOLOGICAL FATHER. TSUJIOS FATHERS NAME WAS RIKIO SEGA. MOTHERS NAME WAS MIKIE KAKIYAMA. TSUGIO MARRIED YOKO KITAKATA ABT 6/61. YOKO d ABT 4/22/68 TSUGIO REMARRIED ON 1/30/70------EMIKO KURISAKI. PLEASE EMAIL ME @ MIETAK@AOL.COM OR AJSERNAGRUBBS@AOL.COM
THANKS IN ADVANCE

Re: Trying to Find info on Miyoko Miyabayashi from Matsumoto City

fuyukikyono — 2004-03-13 14:48:19Z

matsumoto-shi phonebook shows seven miyabayashi sans... for details, please email me or should i??

Re: Trying to Find info on Miyoko Miyabayashi from Matsumoto City

2004-03-12 14:27:49Z

I know very little about her life before I was born. I know that she married my father, an American soldier, in 1957 and then emigrated to the U.S. in 1958. She was never able to return to Japan. About 15 years ago I had to get some paper for her from the Japanese Embassy in Washington, D.C. It had her family tree on it. My mother died two years ago never being able to fulfil an obligation she felt she had to put flowers on her father's grave. I would like to fulfil that obligation for her some day. Unfortunately, my father has disposed of all of my mother's records and I do not even know with certainty what her father's name was. Her father raised her by himself. She never met her mother. I know she had an aunt and cousin that she wrote to when I was a child. I do not know their names. I have no idea where to begin this search.

Re: Trying to Find info on Miyoko Miyabayashi from Matsumoto City

fuyukikyono — 2004-03-12 02:24:53Z

can look up phonebooks so on... do you have other address info so on??

Trying to Find info on Miyoko Miyabayashi from Matsumoto City

2004-02-27 17:37:40Z

According to my birth records, my mother, Miyoko Miyabayashi was born on 13 March 1927 in Mathumoto City, Naganoken, Japan (possible misspelling for Matsumoto???). I know she was an only child whose father's name was Yoshi. She did not know her mother.

My mother left Japan in 1958 and was never able to return to Japan. Her father died sometime in the early 1960s. My mother always felt that she needed to go back to Japan at least once to put flowers on her father's grave. Two years ago my mother died without ever being able to fulfil that obligation. I would like to do this for her. Unfortunately, I have no information about her family.

I know she had an aunt and cousin that she wrote to when I was young. Is there anyway I can find out who these people are? I have no experience researching geneology. Any guidence would be greatly appreciated.

Looking for ancestor buried in Osake Japan

2003-08-16 05:41:12Z

She was a missionary that died on November 10, 1927 in Osake Japan. Her name was Lizzie D. Nash.
Any information would be great!
Thanks Colleen Peters

Masuzo Hagita

2003-04-07 21:39:07Z

I am looking for any information about the family ancestors and history of Masuzo and Ichi Hagita in Tokyo or Chiba. Their children are Hagima, Minoru, Mariko, Tokie, and a half-brother Kurando. I'm a friend of Tokie (Hagita) Spitz. She married Jim Spitz an American Army soldier after WWII. I have some information that Masuzo Hagita was an engineer and may have been an inventor of a pump. I know the family left Tokyo and moved to Chiba during or after WWII, and that they have a family burial plot there, but I'm not sure of the exact location. Please contact me with any information you may have regarding this family, and how I may contact any living relatives. I live in California in the United States, and my email is: it3fittro@yahoo.com. Thank you. Gary

Searching for family or info on Kuwasaki and Arita lineage

jouchi77 — 2003-02-17 00:20:09Z

My name is Jennifer and I am the grandaughter of Leroy T. Kuwasaki Sr. Great Grandaughter of Kumakichi Kuwasaki and Kito Arita. Please if you believe you have any info of possible help, please contact me. Please if you and I may have any relation I am looking for you, please contact me.

Some info that may help my great grandmother was Kito Arita, I believe to have been told she was from Kumamoto, Japan.
Included in my query is a picture of my great grandparents.

Ozawa, Tomiko

Juellestar — 2002-07-07 03:14:43Z

Looking for any information on my mother's family. Her maiden name was Ozawa. My grandparents were Yoju and Kesae Ozawa. My aunt Shigeko is married to Izumi Yoshie.
They lived around Shirojiri.

Thank you.

Judy

Furuya/Murakami

2002-05-16 07:00:25Z

I am looking for family of Shinzo Furuya 1880-1966
and his lat wife Hisako Murakami deid 1923
Parents were from Yamanashi I was told?