Ris Family History
- Ris Name Meaning
- Swiss German: Alemannic variant of Ries 3 or Reis 1. Dutch: from a short form of a Germanic personal name formed with Ris-, variant of Ries, or a patronymic from a short form of Henri, French equivalent of Henry.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 51,912 Historical Documents with Ris on Ancestry
- 31,057 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,699 Census and Voter Lists
- 8,311 Military Records
- 2,520 Immigration Records
- 6,325 Member Trees
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Number of Ris families
 4 - 6  2 - 3 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Ris census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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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 Ris 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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You can find out when most of the Ris 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.
from 1881 UK Census Data
Ris census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Ris ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
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