Gerrits Family History
- Gerrits Name Meaning
- Dutch: patronymic from a Germanic personal name composed of the elements gar, ger ‘spear’, ‘lance’ + hard ‘hardy’, ‘brave’, ‘strong’; a variant of Gerhardt.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 325,546 Historical Documents with Gerrits on Ancestry
- 216,117 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 6,862 Census and Voter Lists
- 268 Military Records
- 2,145 Immigration Records
- 100,154 Member Trees
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Number of Gerrits families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gerrits 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
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