Alten Family History
- Alten Name Meaning
- German habitational name from a place called Alten, for example the one near Dessau in eastern Germany. Perhaps a shortened form of Dutch van A(a)lten, a habitational name for someone from Aalten in Gelderland.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 61,987 Historical Documents with Alten on Ancestry
- 20,344 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,862 Census and Voter Lists
- 26,024 Military Records
- 1,153 Immigration Records
- 9,604 Member Trees
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Number of Alten families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Alten census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Alten census records
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