Bergen Family History
- Bergen Name Meaning
- Dutch: topographic name for someone who lived on or by a hill, or a habitational name from any of various places named with this word. German: inflected variant of Berg (originally after a preposition, as in an or zu Bergen). Swedish: variant of Berg. Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of the various German places called Bergen.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 453,856 Historical Documents with Bergen on Ancestry
- 148,163 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 62,391 Census and Voter Lists
- 15,680 Military Records
- 13,537 Immigration Records
- 214,085 Member Trees
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Number of Bergen families
 12 - 22  5 - 11 |
 1 - 4  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bergen 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
Bergen census records
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