Seher Family History
- Seher Name Meaning
- South German: topographic name for someone who lived by a lake, from a derivative of Middle High German se ‘lake’. Jewish (Ashkenazic): nickname for a visionary, from German Seher ‘seer’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 22,801 Historical Documents with Seher on Ancestry
- 17,105 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 1,826 Census and Voter Lists
- 1,156 Military Records
- 580 Immigration Records
- 2,134 Member Trees
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Number of Seher families
 2 - 1  2 - 1 |
 1  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Seher 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
Seher census records
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