Birnbaum Family History
- Birnbaum Name Meaning
- German: topographic name for someone who lived by a pear tree, from Middle High German bir ‘pear’ + boum ‘tree’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): from German Birnbaum ‘pear tree’, applied mainly as an ornamental name, possibly occasionally as a topographic name.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 78,460 Historical Documents with Birnbaum on Ancestry
- 38,478 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 12,601 Census and Voter Lists
- 6,410 Military Records
- 9,381 Immigration Records
- 11,590 Member Trees
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Number of Birnbaum families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Birnbaum families
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6 - 9 3 - 5 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Birnbaum 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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