Lind Family History
- Lind Name Meaning
- Scandinavian, English, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): topographic name for someone who lived by a lime tree, Middle English lind. As a Jewish and Swedish name, it is often of ornamental origin. South German, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a gentle, tolerant man, from Middle High German lint, linde ‘gentle’, ‘mild’. North German and Danish: habitational name from any of various places named with Lind ‘lime tree’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 638,763 Historical Documents with Lind on Ancestry
- 343,671 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 95,558 Census and Voter Lists
- 29,974 Military Records
- 39,048 Immigration Records
- 130,512 Member Trees
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Number of Lind families
 30 - 58  11 - 29 |
 1 - 10  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Lind families
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59 - 116 20 - 58 |
1 - 19 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lind 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
Lind census records
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