Gerwitz Family History
- Gerwitz Name Meaning
- Jewish (from Ukraine): of uncertain origin; perhaps a variant of Horowitz or alternatively an altered form of Gewirtz.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,114 Historical Documents with Gerwitz on Ancestry
- 2,342 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,529 Census and Voter Lists
- 205 Military Records
- 389 Immigration Records
- 4,649 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Gerwitz census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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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 Gerwitz 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 Gerwitz families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Gerwitz census records
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