Petranek Family History
- Petranek Name Meaning
- Czech (Petránek): from a pet form of the personal name Petr (see Peter).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 6,799 Historical Documents with Petranek on Ancestry
- 3,159 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,104 Census and Voter Lists
- 372 Military Records
- 533 Immigration Records
- 1,631 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Petranek census records
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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 Petranek families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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Emigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival and destination.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Petranek census records
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