Ferrara Family History
- Ferrara Name Meaning
- Southern Italian: topographic name for someone who lived by a forge or iron workings, from ferrara, Latin ferraria, a derivative of ferrum ‘iron’, or a habitational name from the provincial capital of Ferrara, in Emilia-Romagna.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 157,371 Historical Documents with Ferrara on Ancestry
- 76,075 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 23,828 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,817 Military Records
- 19,380 Immigration Records
- 29,271 Member Trees
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Number of Ferrara families
 3 - 4  2 - 2 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ferrara 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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