Camenzind Family History
- Camenzind Name Meaning
- Swiss German: perhaps an occupational name for a builder of fireplaces and chimneys or a derogatory nickname for someone allowed his chimney to catch fire (for which the owner was fined), from Middle High German kamen ‘chimney’, ‘fireplace’ + the base of the agent noun from the verb zünden ‘to set on fire’, ‘burn’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 3,794 Historical Documents with Camenzind on Ancestry
- 1,565 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 750 Census and Voter Lists
- 125 Military Records
- 419 Immigration Records
- 935 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Camenzind census records
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