Bjorn Family History
- Bjorn Name Meaning
- Danish and Norwegian (Bjørn); Swedish (Björn): from a personal name and nickname meaning ‘bear’ (Old Norse bjorn). The Norwegian name is often a shortened form of any of various habitational names from places named with this word, e.g. Bjørnsplass. In Swedish it is ornamental in some cases.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 44,453 Historical Documents with Bjorn on Ancestry
- 25,327 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,364 Census and Voter Lists
- 564 Military Records
- 3,127 Immigration Records
- 12,071 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Bjorn census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Bjorn families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Bjorn families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Bjorn census records
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