Amador Family History
- Amador Name Meaning
- Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan: from a medieval personal name, Latin Amator ‘lover (i.e. of God)’, from amare ‘to love’. As a personal name it was particularly popular in the 16th century, having been borne by various saints.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 301,961 Historical Documents with Amador on Ancestry
- 249,680 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 16,291 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,899 Military Records
- 10,045 Immigration Records
- 24,046 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Amador census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Amador census records
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