Heistand Family History
- Heistand Name Meaning
- German: probably an altered spelling of German Hiestand, of uncertain origin and meaning. In Swabian-Bavarian Hie- is often a reduced form of Hieb- or Hüb-, but if this is a variant of Hübstand, the meaning is equally unexplained.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 35,394 Historical Documents with Heistand on Ancestry
- 9,423 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,028 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,848 Military Records
- 287 Immigration Records
- 18,808 Member Trees
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Number of Heistand families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Heistand census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Heistand census records
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