Lorber Family History
- Lorber Name Meaning
- German: occupational name for a grocer, a seller of herbs and spices, from Middle High German lörber ‘laurel’, ‘bay (tree)’. Slovenian: nickname from lorber, an informal word meaning ‘laurel’, ‘bay’, of German origin (see 1 above).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 26,356 Historical Documents with Lorber on Ancestry
- 12,438 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,242 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,977 Military Records
- 2,497 Immigration Records
- 5,202 Member Trees
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Number of Lorber families
 6 - 9  3 - 5 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Lorber 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
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