Riis Family History
- Riis Name Meaning
- Scandinavian: nickname from ris ‘twigs’, ‘scrub’, or a habitational name from any of several places so named in Denmark. Norwegian: habitational name from any of five farmsteads named Ris, from Old Norse hrís ‘brushwood’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 17,803 Historical Documents with Riis on Ancestry
- 9,561 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,253 Census and Voter Lists
- 563 Military Records
- 2,050 Immigration Records
- 4,376 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Riis census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Riis census records
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