Risner Family History
- Risner Name Meaning
- Variant of the German habitational name Reisner, or of German Riesner, an occupational name for a maker of veils and hoods, from an agent derivative of Middle High German, Middle Low German rise ‘veil’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 118,483 Historical Documents with Risner on Ancestry
- 31,702 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 9,608 Census and Voter Lists
- 2,916 Military Records
- 435 Immigration Records
- 73,822 Member Trees
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Number of Risner families
 5 - 8  2 - 4 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Risner census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Risner census records
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