South Family History
- South Name Meaning
- English: from Middle English south, hence a topographic name for someone who lived to the south of a settlement or a regional name for someone who had migrated from the south.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 915,054 Historical Documents with South on Ancestry
- 385,242 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 165,716 Census and Voter Lists
- 96,787 Military Records
- 9,976 Immigration Records
- 257,333 Member Trees
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Number of South families
 361 - 720  121 - 360 |
 1 - 120  |
from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
Number of South families
|
8 - 13 3 - 7 |
1 - 2 |
from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
South census records
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Census records can tell you little-known facts about your ancestors such as birthplace, occupation and value of personal estate.
from the New York Passengers List
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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 South families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records.
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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You can find out when most of the South 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 the Australian Convict Transportation Registers 1787-1868
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You can find out when most of the South families immigrated to Australia. 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
South census records
Census records can offer a lot of little known facts about your South ancestors, such as occupation.
Occupation can tell you about your ancestors' social status and economic status.
Did the Souths fight in a war? Military records can tell you a lot
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