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Researching Yoshida family from Yamaguchi-ken

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Researching Yoshida family from Yamaguchi-ken

Posted: 21 May 2008 10:41AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Yoshida, Kagaski
Hi. I'm researching my wife's ancestry. Her great-grandmother arrived in Seattle in 1912 from Kobe. On the manifest, it records that she is from Yamaguchi-ken, Kume Mura. I have some questions about that:

1) I understand that Yamaguchi is a western prefecture on Honshu, but that Kume Mura is located in Ehime prefecture on Okinawa. How is this possible? Was Kume Mura part of Yamaguchi in years past?

2) This ancestor's daughter arrived a little later. On her ship's manifest, it includes her uncle's name and address in Japan. The record says that she came from Yamaguchi-ken, Turaneo(? hard to read)-gun, Kume Mura. The suffix "-gun" means "rural area", doesn't it? Plus, I cannot really make out this name, can anyone suggest what it actually might say?
SubjectAuthorDate Posted
Mike Ryan 21 May 2008 4:41PM GMT 
mk_mori 22 May 2008 5:09PM GMT 
mookie120 28 May 2008 4:14AM GMT 
Mike Ryan 28 May 2008 9:45PM GMT 
jennifersnepv... 29 May 2008 3:53PM GMT 
Mike Ryan 29 May 2008 10:32PM GMT 
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