English: nickname for a stranger or newcomer to a community, from
Middle English g(h)est ‘guest’, ‘visitor’ (from Old Norse
gestr, absorbing the cognate Old English giest).
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Historical Documents & Family Trees with Guest
Click on a place to view Guest immigration records
The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry.co.uk.
You can find out where the majority of the Guest 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.
Click on a circle in the chart to view Guest emigration records
You can find out when most of the Guest families immigrated
to the United States.
You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure,
port of arrival and destination.
Did the Guests fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.