Confer Family History
- Confer Name Meaning
- Respelling of French Swiss Convers, literally ‘convert’, a surname which Morlet believes was probably bestowed on Jewish or other converts to Christianity. The form Confer occurs with great frequency in central PA, its spelling reflecting the German (or Dutch) pronunciation; it may have originated in Europe (five Confers are listed in the German telephone directory) or on arrival in the U.S. Possibly an Americanized spelling of German Kumpfer (see Compher).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 100,096 Historical Documents with Confer on Ancestry
- 29,462 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 13,311 Census and Voter Lists
- 9,375 Military Records
- 472 Immigration Records
- 47,476 Member Trees
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Number of Confer families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Confer families
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7 - 12 3 - 6 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Confer 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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