Finstad Family History
- Finstad Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farms so named, especially in southeastern Norway, from the personal name Finnr, meaning ‘Finn’, ‘Lapp’ + stad (from Old Norse staðr ‘farmstead’, ‘dwelling’).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 21,047 Historical Documents with Finstad on Ancestry
- 9,024 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,440 Census and Voter Lists
- 774 Military Records
- 1,342 Immigration Records
- 6,467 Member Trees
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Number of Finstad families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Finstad 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
Finstad census records
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