Gaffner Family History
- Gaffner Name Meaning
- Swiss German: topographic name, found mainly in the Wallis canton (Valais) for someone who lived in an Alpine hut or shelter, from Romansch Gafene ‘large basket’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,728 Historical Documents with Gaffner on Ancestry
- 2,386 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,557 Census and Voter Lists
- 257 Military Records
- 224 Immigration Records
- 2,304 Member Trees
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Number of Gaffner families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gaffner census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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