Balter Family History
- Balter Name Meaning
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): habitational name for someone from the town of Balta in southern Ukraine. German: from a reduced form of the personal name Baltazar. German: in Tyrol, Austria, a variant of Walter. German: possibly also a reduced form of Swabian Balt(e)ner, from Middle High German balteniere ‘pilgrim’, ‘beggar’, ‘vagrant’. Compare Baldner.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 31,385 Historical Documents with Balter on Ancestry
- 12,887 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,028 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,049 Military Records
- 1,988 Immigration Records
- 6,433 Member Trees
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Number of Balter families
 23 - 43  8 - 22 |
 1 - 7  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Balter families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Balter 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
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