Kerns Family History
- Kerns Name Meaning
- Irish: variant of Kearns. Dutch: variant of Kern.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 489,056 Historical Documents with Kerns on Ancestry
- 134,492 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 69,105 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,382 Military Records
- 3,726 Immigration Records
- 265,351 Member Trees
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Number of Kerns families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
 1 - 8  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Kerns families
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3 - 3 2 - 2 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kerns 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
Kerns census records
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