Trachtenberg Family History
- Trachtenberg Name Meaning
- Jewish (eastern Ashkenazic): ornamental name of uncertain origin; -berg ‘mountain’, ‘hill’ is a very common ornamental ending of Yiddish surnames; Trachten-, however, is unclear. It may derive from Yiddish trakhtn ‘to think’ or German Tracht ‘costume’, ‘(national) dress’.
Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013, Oxford University Press
- 16,074 Historical Documents with Trachtenberg on Ancestry
- 6,303 Birth, Marriage, and Deaths
- 3,459 Census and Voter Lists
- 921 Military Records
- 3,193 Immigration Records
- 2,198 Member Trees
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from the 1891 England and Wales Census Data
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from the 1891 Scotland Census Data
Trachtenberg census records
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from the New York Passenger Lists
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