Eder Family History
- Eder Name Meaning
- South German (also common in the Czech lands): topographic name for someone who lived on a patch of bare, uncultivated land, from Middle High German (o)ed(e) ‘wasteland’. It may also be a habitational name from any of the numerous places named with this element.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 156,682 Historical Documents with Eder on Ancestry
- 85,599 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 17,668 Census and Voter Lists
- 20,372 Military Records
- 7,167 Immigration Records
- 25,876 Member Trees
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Number of Eder families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Eder families
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3 - 2 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Eder 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
Eder census records
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