Scafidi Family History
- Scafidi Name Meaning
- habitational name for someone from any of the many place in Greece, Southern Italy, and Sicily named with medieval Greek skafidion ‘trough’, ‘tub’, ‘kneading trough’, ‘drinking trough for animals’. skaphidion also means ‘skiff’, ‘light boat’, and in some cases this may be an occupational name for a boatman. possibly a habitational name for someone from a place named Scafa, in particular a district so named in Capo d’Orlando in Messina, Sicily.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 12,765 Historical Documents with Scafidi on Ancestry
- 3,941 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,830 Census and Voter Lists
- 715 Military Records
- 1,295 Immigration Records
- 4,984 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Scafidi census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Scafidi surname lived over the years.
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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 Scafidi families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination.
from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the Scafidi 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.
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