Hammerstein Family History
- Hammerstein Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of various places called Hammerstein, from Old High German hamar ‘rock’, ‘crag’ + stein ‘stone’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German Hammer ‘hammer’ + Stein ‘stone’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 35,385 Historical Documents with Hammerstein on Ancestry
- 10,917 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,227 Census and Voter Lists
- 4,512 Military Records
- 1,045 Immigration Records
- 16,684 Member Trees
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Number of Hammerstein families
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Hammerstein 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
Hammerstein census records
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