Preis Family History
- Preis Name Meaning
- German, Dutch, and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a laudable or celebrated person, from Middle High German pris, Dutch prijs, German Preis ‘praise’, ‘fame’, ‘worth’. Southern German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): regional name for someone from Prussia, from a southern German variant of Preuss or from Yiddish prays ‘Prussia’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 58,792 Historical Documents with Preis on Ancestry
- 30,489 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 4,152 Census and Voter Lists
- 13,366 Military Records
- 2,585 Immigration Records
- 8,200 Member Trees
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Number of Preis families
 10 - 17  4 - 9 |
 1 - 3  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Preis families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Preis 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
Preis census records
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