Rissmiller Family History
- Rissmiller Name Meaning
- Americanized form of North German Rissmüller, or South German Reismüller, a habitational name for someone from a place called Reismühle, literally ‘mill in the bushes’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 13,492 Historical Documents with Rissmiller on Ancestry
- 3,747 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,650 Census and Voter Lists
- 637 Military Records
- 41 Immigration Records
- 7,417 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Rissmiller census records
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from 1881 UK Census Data
Rissmiller census records
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