Sauer Family History
- Sauer Name Meaning
- German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for an embittered or cantankerous person, from Middle High German sur, German sauer ‘sour’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 730,260 Historical Documents with Sauer on Ancestry
- 374,307 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 68,949 Census and Voter Lists
- 34,493 Military Records
- 16,920 Immigration Records
- 235,591 Member Trees
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Number of Sauer families
 8 - 14  3 - 7 |
 1 - 2  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of Sauer families
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2 - 1 2 - 1 |
1 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Sauer 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
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