Broten Family History
- Broten Name Meaning
- German: probably a shortened form of any of various compound names containing the element Braten ‘roast’ (from Middle High German brate), as for example Bradenahl (‘baked eel’) or Bratengeiger, a nickname for a fiddler (from a derivative of Middle High German gige ‘fiddle’, ‘violin’) who was paid in food rather than cash. Variant spelling of Norwegian Bråten (see Braaten).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 14,080 Historical Documents with Broten on Ancestry
- 6,042 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,054 Census and Voter Lists
- 498 Military Records
- 605 Immigration Records
- 3,881 Member Trees
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Number of Broten families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Broten census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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