Kalmer Family History
- Kalmer Name Meaning
- perhaps a nickname from Thuringian dialect galmer ‘yellowhammer’, equivalent to Goldammer in standard German, which is found as a surname in eastern parts of the country. Alternatively it could be a habitational name for someone from Kalme near Wolfenbüttel, Lower Saxony. Perhaps an altered spelling of Kalmar.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 9,157 Historical Documents with Kalmer on Ancestry
- 3,841 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,391 Census and Voter Lists
- 238 Military Records
- 474 Immigration Records
- 2,213 Member Trees
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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