Forcht Family History
- Forcht Name Meaning
- German: topographic name for someone who lived by a pine forest, from Middle High German vohre ‘pine’ (Old High German foraha).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 7,974 Historical Documents with Forcht on Ancestry
- 3,235 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,301 Census and Voter Lists
- 491 Military Records
- 233 Immigration Records
- 2,714 Member Trees
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Number of Forcht families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Forcht census records
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Forcht families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Forcht families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Forcht census records
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