Schoenwald Family History
- Schoenwald Name Meaning
- German (Schönwald) and Jewish (Ashkenazic): habitational name from any of several places named Schönwald. Jewish (Ashkenazic): ornamental name composed of German schön ‘beautiful’ + Wald ‘forest’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 12,863 Historical Documents with Schoenwald on Ancestry
- 7,993 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,604 Census and Voter Lists
- 425 Military Records
- 632 Immigration Records
- 2,209 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Schoenwald census records
You can use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Schoenwald surname lived over the years.
While the questions in census records vary from place to place, and year to year, you can generally find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, occupations, etc.
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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 Schoenwald 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 Schoenwald 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
Schoenwald census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your Schoenwald ancestors, such as occupation.
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