Adair Family History
- Adair Name Meaning
- Scottish (Galloway) and northern Irish: from the Scottish personal name Adair, also spelled Ed?ear, a form of Edgar.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 1,179,061 Historical Documents with Adair on Ancestry
- 171,226 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 113,987 Census and Voter Lists
- 28,023 Military Records
- 12,939 Immigration Records
- 852,886 Member Trees
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Number of Adair families
 39 - 76  14 - 38 |
 1 - 13  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Adair families
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121 - 239 41 - 120 |
1 - 40 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Adair census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Adair families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Adair 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.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Adair census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Adair ancestors, such as occupation.
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