Mecklenburg Family History
- Mecklenburg Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name for someone from the province of this name in northern Germany, so called from Old Saxon mikil ‘big’, ‘great’ + burg ‘castle’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 140,716 Historical Documents with Mecklenburg on Ancestry
- 19,646 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,156 Census and Voter Lists
- 16,655 Military Records
- 1,252 Immigration Records
- 99,007 Member Trees
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Number of Mecklenburg 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
Mecklenburg census records
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from the New York Passengers List
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from 1881 UK Census Data
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