Gehring Family History
- Gehring Name Meaning
- German and Swiss German: from a medieval personal name, a short form of Gerhard or a similar name, formed with the first element ger, gar ‘spear’ + the patronymic suffix -ing.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 168,459 Historical Documents with Gehring on Ancestry
- 96,249 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 19,859 Census and Voter Lists
- 7,682 Military Records
- 4,029 Immigration Records
- 40,640 Member Trees
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Number of Gehring families
 5 - 7  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gehring 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
Gehring census records
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