Dern Family History
- Dern Name Meaning
- from an old personal name based on an element cognate with Old High German tarhnen ‘to conceal’, tarni ‘secretly’. possibly a habitational name from Derne near Dortmund or Dehrn on the Lahn river, Hesse.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 39,360 Historical Documents with Dern on Ancestry
- 18,246 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,461 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,424 Military Records
- 1,004 Immigration Records
- 11,225 Member Trees
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Number of Dern families
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 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Dern families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Dern 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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