Host Family History
- Host Name Meaning
- English: occupational name for an innkeeper, from Middle English, Old French (h)oste ‘host’, ‘guest’. Danish (Høst): nickname from høst ‘harvest’, ‘autumn’ (see Herbst). French: from Old French ost ‘army’, hence an occupational name for a soldier. Dutch: from the Germanic personal name Austa, meaning ‘east’. German: habitational name from either of two places called Host, near Koblenz and near Bitburg.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 78,001 Historical Documents with Host on Ancestry
- 43,023 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 10,527 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,116 Military Records
- 2,607 Immigration Records
- 16,728 Member Trees
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Number of Host families
 8 - 13  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Host families
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4 - 5 2 - 3 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Host census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
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 Host 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 Host 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
Host census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Host ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Hosts fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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