Gaustad Family History
- Gaustad Name Meaning
- Norwegian: habitational name from any of several farmsteads so named. The first element is from either of two personal names (Gaute or Old Norse Guðrekr, a compound of guð ‘god’ + rekr ‘powerful’), or possibly a river name. The second element is Old Norse staðr ‘farmstead’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,376 Historical Documents with Gaustad on Ancestry
- 5,927 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,939 Census and Voter Lists
- 305 Military Records
- 627 Immigration Records
- 7,578 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gaustad 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
Gaustad census records
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