Longenecker Family History
- Longenecker Name Meaning
- Altered spelling of Swiss German Langenecker, a habitational name for someone from any of several places called Langeneck, from Old High German lang ‘long’ + egga ‘corner’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 79,188 Historical Documents with Longenecker on Ancestry
- 18,937 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 8,027 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,142 Military Records
- 451 Immigration Records
- 49,631 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Longenecker census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Longenecker surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
from the New York Passengers List
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The information for this chart came from the U.S. Immigration Collection at Ancestry. You can find out where the majority of the Longenecker families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Longenecker families immigrated to the United States. You can focus your search to emigration records dating from that era.
Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Longenecker census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Longenecker ancestors, such as occupation.
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