Kruis Family History
- Kruis Name Meaning
- Dutch (van de Kruis): topographic name for someone who lived by a village or roadside cross, from Dutch kruis ‘cross’. German: nickname meaning ‘crab’, from Middle High German kruiz.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 20,989 Historical Documents with Kruis on Ancestry
- 14,005 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,232 Census and Voter Lists
- 424 Military Records
- 699 Immigration Records
- 4,629 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Kruis 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
Kruis census records
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