Kleven Family History
- Kleven Name Meaning
- German: habitational name for someone from a place called Klevenow. German: variant of Kleve. Norwegian: habitational name from any of numerous farmsteads all over Norway named Kleven, from the definite singular form of Kleve.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 36,595 Historical Documents with Kleven on Ancestry
- 16,189 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 5,368 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,113 Military Records
- 1,998 Immigration Records
- 11,927 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kleven 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
Kleven census records
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