Petrovic Family History
- Petrovic Name Meaning
- Croatian and Serbian (Petrovic); Slovenian (Petrovic): patronymic from the personal names Petar (Croatian and Serbian) or Peter (Slovenian) (see Peter).
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 18,488 Historical Documents with Petrovic on Ancestry
- 8,487 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,201 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,070 Military Records
- 3,605 Immigration Records
- 2,125 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Petrovic census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Petrovic 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.
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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 Petrovic 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 Petrovic 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.
Census records can tell you a lot of little known facts about your Petrovic
ancestors, such as occupation. Occupation can tell you about your ancestors social
and economic status.
Did the Petrovics fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
about your ancestors including birthplace, occupation and even physical descriptions.
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