Pfost Family History
- Pfost Name Meaning
- German: from Middle High German pfost ‘stake’, ‘post’, hence a metonymic occupational name for a maker of stakes or posts or a topographic name for someone living near a prominent stake.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 38,685 Historical Documents with Pfost on Ancestry
- 16,587 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 2,361 Census and Voter Lists
- 553 Military Records
- 171 Immigration Records
- 19,013 Member Trees
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Number of Pfost families
 3 - 3  2 - 2 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Pfost census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Pfost census records
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