Lach Family History
- Lach Name Meaning
- Ukrainian, Belorussian, and Polish: ethnic name from eastern Slavic Lach ‘Pole’. This term is used in Czech to denote the inhabitants of the northeastern part of Moravia, near the Polish border. Slovak, Czech (Moravian), and German (of Slavic origin): from the personal name Lach, a short form of Czech and Slovak (V)ladislav (see Laszlo). Germanized spelling of Slovenian Lah, derivative of Vlah ‘Wallachian’, ‘Vlach’, ‘Romanian’, or more generally denoting any person of foreign origin.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 62,340 Historical Documents with Lach on Ancestry
- 35,821 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 11,178 Census and Voter Lists
- 5,073 Military Records
- 4,143 Immigration Records
- 6,125 Member Trees
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Number of Lach families
 25 - 47  9 - 24 |
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lach families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lach 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
Lach census records
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